Crime and Punishment

This book contains several tables of HTML content to make reading easier.Crime and Punishment focuses on the mental anguish of Rodion Raskolnikov, an impoverished ex-student in St. Petersburg who formulates and executes a plan to kill an unscrupulous pawnbroker for her cash. The 1866 novel is the first of Dostoyevsky's five large works and reveals the mastery of psychological observation and analysis for which the Russian author is hailed.