Crime and Punishment

Crime and Punishment is a novel written by Fyodor Dostoevsky in 1866. It portrays the main character, Raskolnikov, as a young, arrogant, and indecisive young man who is living in poverty. He decides to kill an elderly pawnbroker and pretends to want to pawn his watch as a way to rehearse the crime.

Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky was a Russian novelist, short story writer, essayist and journalist. Numerous literary critics regard him as one of the greatest novelists in all of world literat ...