Rodion Romanovitch Raskolnikov, a brilliant yet conflicted student, lives in a rented room in a run-down St. Petersburg apartment. Extremely handsome, proud, and intelligent, Raskolnikov devises a peculiar theory that "intelligent" men are above the law. To execute his theory, he contemplates committing a crime. He murders a cynical and unscrupulous pawnbroker named Alyona Ivanovna and her sister Lizaveta.

The act compels Raskolnikov to negotiate and reconcile with his own moral dilemmas. Fyodor Dostoevsky’s incisive psychological analysis of his protagonist goes beyond Raskolnikov’s criminal act, covering his perilous journey from suffering to redemption. First published in The Russian Messenger in monthly installments during 1866, Crime and Punishment, Dostoevsky’s second novel following his return from exile in Siberia, is a powerful revelation of the human condition. Is crime acceptable in the pursuit of a higher purpose?

• Author: Fyodor Dostoevsky
• Publishing House: Om Books International
• Edition number: 1
• Year of Publication: 2018
• No. of pages: 504
• Cover type: paperback
• ISBN: 9789352763160