Crime and Punishment
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'''''Crime and Punishment''''' ([[Russian language|Russian]]: Преступление и наказание) is a [[novel]] by [[Russian literature|Russian author]] [[Fyodor Dostoevsky]], that was first published in the literary journal ''The Russian Messenger'' in twelve monthly installments in 1866, and was later published in a single volume. | '''''Crime and Punishment''''' ([[Russian language|Russian]]: Преступление и наказание) is a [[novel]] by [[Russian literature|Russian author]] [[Fyodor Dostoevsky]], that was first published in the literary journal ''The Russian Messenger'' in twelve monthly installments in 1866, and was later published in a single volume. | ||
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''Crime and Punishment'' focuses on the mental anguish and moral [[dilemma]]s of [[Rodion Romanovich Raskolnikov]], an impoverished [[St. Petersburg]] student who formulates and executes a plan to kill a hated, unscrupulous [[pawnbroker]] for her money, thereby solving his financial problems and at the same time, he argues, ridding the world of evil. ''Crime and Punishment'' is considered by many as the first of Dostoevsky's cycle of great novels, which would culminate with his last completed work, ''[[The Brothers Karamazov]]'', shortly before his death. | ''Crime and Punishment'' focuses on the mental anguish and moral [[dilemma]]s of [[Rodion Romanovich Raskolnikov]], an impoverished [[St. Petersburg]] student who formulates and executes a plan to kill a hated, unscrupulous [[pawnbroker]] for her money, thereby solving his financial problems and at the same time, he argues, ridding the world of evil. ''Crime and Punishment'' is considered by many as the first of Dostoevsky's cycle of great novels, which would culminate with his last completed work, ''[[The Brothers Karamazov]]'', shortly before his death. | ||
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Crime and Punishment (Russian: Преступление и наказание) is a novel by Russian author Fyodor Dostoevsky, that was first published in the literary journal The Russian Messenger in twelve monthly installments in 1866, and was later published in a single volume.
Crime and Punishment focuses on the mental anguish and moral dilemmas of Rodion Romanovich Raskolnikov, an impoverished St. Petersburg student who formulates and executes a plan to kill a hated, unscrupulous pawnbroker for her money, thereby solving his financial problems and at the same time, he argues, ridding the world of evil. Crime and Punishment is considered by many as the first of Dostoevsky's cycle of great novels, which would culminate with his last completed work, The Brothers Karamazov, shortly before his death.