A chilling exploration of guilt and morality, Crime and Punishment follows Raskolnikov, a desperate student who commits murder believing it justified. Tormented by conscience and fear, he faces the psychological toll of his actions in a harsh St. Petersburg world. Dostoevsky’s novel delves into the human soul, examining punishment, redemption, and the fragile balance between sin and salvation.
Date: 1866 (Russia)
Length: ~736 pages (varies by edition)
Cultural impact: ~15.000.000 copies (estimates)
Genre: Drama & Plays, Historical Fiction
"Dostoevsky is the only psychologist from whom I had anything to learn" — Friedrich Nietzsche, German philosopher
"In Dostoevsky there were things believable and not to be believed, but some so true they changed you as you read them" — Ernest Hemingway, Nobel Prize-winning American novelist
"Dostoevsky is my blood relative" — Franz Kafka, influential Czech-German writer
"The novels of Dostoevsky are seething whirlpools… gyrating sandstorms" — Virginia Woolf, pioneering modernist novelist
"All of Dostoevsky’s characters question themselves… that is the modern problem" — Albert Camus, Nobel Prize-winning philosopher and author
1 review
One of the greatest writers in world literature -perhaps alongside Cervantes and Shakespeare- unfolding across more than 800 pages the story of a student in the nihilistic Russia of the 1860s. A profound journey into the turmoil of the darker side of the human mind -and its consequences. An invaluable experience. A masterpiece without equal.
Reading: 9 Art: 8 Wisdom: 7 Author: 9 Total: 9 Read count: 1 / March 18, 2026
Reading: 9
Art: 8
Wisdom: 7
Author: 9
Total: 9
Read count: 1 / March 18, 2026*As an Amazon Associate we earn from qualifying purchases.
