Crime and Punishment E-book Author: Fyodor Dostoevsky Genre: Enigma, Literature, Murder
Dostoevsky, Fyodor Mikhailovich (1821-1881) - A Russian novelist known as
one of the greatest and most influential of all modern writers.
Crime and Punishment (1866) - Perhaps the greatest of all psychological
crime novels. Raskolnikov, a student, decides to kill a "worthless person"
to help his impoverished family, and to prove that he is exempt from moral
law. After committing the crime, Raskolnikov is overtaken by panic and
tormented by conscience as, one by one, his motives are proven false.
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