Crime and Punishment (World Famous Translation Library Dostoevsky Collection)

"Crime and Punishment" is one of the representative works of the 19th-century Russian writer Fyodor Dostoevsky. The novel describes Raskolnikov, a poor college student who wanted to become an extraordinary figure like Napoleon. He was poisoned by anarchist ideas and forced by life to kill an old loan shark and her innocent sister, creating a murder that shocked the whole of Russia. After experiencing a painful confession, he finally surrendered under the persuasion of the Christian girl Sonia and was sentenced to exile in Siberia. The work focuses on the protagonist's mental state of being condemned by his conscience and feeling deeply lonely and fearful after committing the crime. It depicts his psychological changes before and after the crime, and reveals the difficult life of the lower class people in Russia.