Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoevsky

Category: Classic, Contemporary, Thriller
Language: English
Keywords: Crime Fiction Literary Fiction Literary History & Criticism Psychological Russian True Decrypt

Written by Fyodor Dostoevsky
Read by Dick Hill
Format: M4B
Bitrate: 64 Kbps
Unabridged

Published: July 26th 2010
By: Tantor Audio
Length: 23hrs 44mins

A desperate young man plans the perfect crime - the murder of a despicable pawnbroker, an old woman no one loves and no one will mourn. Is it not just, he reasons, for a man of genius to commit such a crime - to transgress moral law - if it will ultimately benefit humanity?

So begins one of the greatest novels ever written: a powerful psychological study, a terrifying murder mystery, and a fascinating detective thriller infused with philosophical, religious, and social commentary.

Raskolnikov, an impoverished student living in a garret in the gloomy slums of St. Petersburg, carries out his grotesque scheme and plunges into a hell of persecution, madness, and terror. Crime and Punishment takes the listener on a journey into the darkest recesses of the criminal and depraved mind and exposes the soul of a man possessed by both good and evil - a man who cannot escape his own conscience.