Crime and Punishment (Exquisite Edition) -- Works of Dostoevsky

Author: F.M. Dostoevsky () (translated by Yue Lin)
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Publish Date: 2004-11-01
Features: Crime and Punishment is one of the representative works of the great Russian writer Fyodor Dostoevsky in the 19th century. The novel depicts a poor university student, Raskolnikov, who aspires to be a Napoleon-like figure and believes himself to be a superman, influenced by anarchism and driven by poverty, killing a pawnbroker and her innocent sister, thereby committing a shocking murder case across Russia. After experiencing a painful inner repentance, he ultimately surrenders to the authorities under the persuasion of the Christian girl Sonya, is sentenced to exile in Siberia. The work focuses on the protagonist's conscience after the crime, his profound feelings of loneliness and fear, and portrays the psychological changes before and after his criminal act. On one hand, the novel depicts the miserable lives of the lower classes in Russia and exposes the evils of the aristocratic society; on the other hand, it also promotes the idea of enduring hardship and seeking redemption through religion.