Ground-breaking in its realism and psychological depth, Dostoevskyâ€s novel tells the story of Raskolnikov, the impoverished student who justified to himself the murder of a miserly pawnbroker and the theft of her money, yet suffers moral anguish in the aftermath of his brutal crime.

Ground-breaking in its realism and psychological depth, Dostoevskyâ€s novel tells the story of Raskolnikov, the impoverished student who justified to himself the murder of a miserly pawnbroker and the theft of her money, yet suffers moral anguish in the aftermath of his brutal crime.