Crime and Punishment

A novel by the Russian author Fyodor Dostoevsky, serialized in twelve monthly installments in The Russian Messenger during 1866 and published as a separate edition in 1867. It follows Rodion Raskolnikov, an impoverished former student in Saint Petersburg, through the murder of a pawnbroker he commits to test a theory of moral exceptionalism and the psychological torment and eventual confession that follow, and is regarded as one of the foundational works of Russian realist fiction. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/