Crime and Punishment
- ISBN-10
- 9354865135
- ISBN-13
- 9789354865138
- Series
- Crime and Punishment
- Category
- Fiction
- Pages
- 768
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2021-09-01
- Publisher
- Diamond Pocket Books Pvt Ltd
- Author
- Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Description
'Crime and Punishment' is a novel written by the Russian author, Fyodor Dostoevsky (11 November 1821-9th February 1881) He was a philosopher, novelist, short story writer and journalist. His other novels include The Idiot, Demons and The Brothers Karamazov. He wrote 12 novels, four novellas and 16 short stories. The story focuses on the mental anguish of Rodion Raskolnikov. He was a law student He treated himself youniverse guy. Different from others in every aspect. He plans to rob money so that he could become a rich fellow and also get rid of a tag of pauper. With this money he will do great things. He murders one lady for money. He thinks he will be relieved from poverty. But later on he has a guilt for the same. Although he not only kills a lady but also kills her half sister, who happens to stumble upon the scene. But he steals only few items and a small purse. His goodluck is he escapes from that place safely. Next day when he gets summon from the police, he becomes flabbergasted, but it is related to a debt notice from his landlady. At one moment the police enquires about the murder also. He becomes unconscious. He helps one of his friends, Rezumikhin who was ill. After that when he comes back to his house there he finds his mother and sister are there. Story moves ahead with lots of ups and downs but in an interesting manner. The main focus of the story is that the murder act by Rasholnikov leads him to a guilt. The story seems based on psycho analysis of guilt by Rasholnikov
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