Raskolnikov, a destitute student in St. Petersburg, has a theory: exceptional men stand above ordinary moral law. Acting on it, he commits murder — and what follows is not the triumph he imagined, but a devastating psychological unraveling as guilt, paranoia, and an aching need for confession tighten their grip. Only Sonya, a young woman living on the margins of society, holds the key to his salvation.Readers call Crime and Punishment one of the most heartfelt stories ever written about the agonies of the human mind — a novel that changed how they think, and that confirmed Dostoevsky as, in Nietzsche's words, the only psychologist he had anything to learn from. At its heart is the question that has never lost its urgency: can a person who has done the unthinkable ever truly find redemption?This premium hardbound collector's edition with sprayed edges presents Dostoevsky's original, unabridged text — one of world literature's supreme achievements, in a format worthy of it.
