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Crime and Punishment

by Fyodor Dostoevsky

1866 · Novel

Open Library OL45018229W

Raskolnikov tests a theory that some people may kill for a higher purpose, and the theory does not survive the act. This entry points to a public-domain English translation.

About the author

Dostoevsky’s Crime and Punishment follows a student who tries to justify a murder and then has to live inside the justification. The English text linked here is an older public-domain translation. More of this shelf for Fyodor Dostoevsky.

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