Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Crime and Punishment

by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Penguin, 2003
ISBN 9780140449136
Paperback

Condition: Very Good
a little edge and shelf wear, a little rubbing and bumping to edges and corners (see photographs)

“Raskolnikov, a destitute and desperate former student, wanders through the slums of St Petersburg and commits a random murder without remorse or regret.  He imagines himself to be a great man, a Napoleon: acting for a higher purpose beyond conventional moral law.  But as he embarks on a dangerous game of cat and mouse with a suspicious police investigator, Raskolnikov is pursued by the growing voice of his conscience and finds the noose of his own guilt tightening around his neck.  Only Sonya, a downtrodden prostitute, can offer the chance of redemption.”