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Crime and Punishment

Prestupleniye i nakazaniye

Fyodor Dostoevsky · translated by Constance Garnett

Raskolnikov, a destitute former student in St. Petersburg, carries out a murder he believes he can justify, and then has to live with it.

Crime and Punishment follows Rodion Romanovitch Raskolnikov, a former student living in poverty in St. Petersburg, before and after a crime he has persuaded himself is justified. The novel is in six parts with an epilogue.

This edition is the English translation by Constance Garnett, complete in six parts and the epilogue, and includes the translator's preface on Dostoevsky's life from the source edition.

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  • Readers new to Dostoevsky's major novels
  • Readers interested in guilt and conscience

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On an exceptionally hot evening early in July a young man came out of the garret in which he lodged in S. Place and walked slowly, as though in hesitation, towards K. bridge.

He had successfully avoided meeting his landlady on the staircase. His garret was under the roof of a high, five-storied house and was more like a cupboard than a room. The landlady who provided him with garret, dinners, and attendance, lived on the floor below, and every time he went out he was obliged to pass her kitchen, the door of which invariably stood open. And each time he passed, the young man had a sick, frightened feeling, which made him scowl and feel ashamed. He was hopelessly in debt to his landlady, and was afraid of meeting her.

Contents

  1. 01Translator’s Preface
  2. 02Crime and Punishment
  3. 03Part I
  4. 04Chapter I
  5. 05Chapter II
  6. 06Chapter III
  7. 07Chapter IV
  8. 08Chapter V
  9. 09Chapter VI
  10. 10Chapter VII
  11. 11Part II
  12. 12Chapter I
  13. 13Chapter II
  14. 14Chapter III
  15. 15Chapter IV
  16. 16Chapter V
  17. 17Chapter VI
  18. 18Chapter VII
  19. 19Part III
  20. 20Chapter I
  21. 21Chapter II
  22. 22Chapter III
  23. 23Chapter IV
  24. 24Chapter V
  25. 25Chapter VI
  26. 26Part IV
  27. 27Chapter I
  28. 28Chapter II
  29. 29Chapter III
  30. 30Chapter IV
  31. 31Chapter V
  32. 32Chapter VI
  33. 33Part V
  34. 34Chapter I
  35. 35Chapter II
  36. 36Chapter III
  37. 37Chapter IV
  38. 38Chapter V
  39. 39Part VI
  40. 40Chapter I
  41. 41Chapter II
  42. 42Chapter III
  43. 43Chapter IV
  44. 44Chapter V
  45. 45Chapter VI
  46. 46Chapter VII
  47. 47Chapter VIII
  48. 48Epilogue
  49. 49I
  50. 50II

About this edition

Author
Fyodor Dostoevsky
Translator
Constance Garnett
Era
Modern (c. 1800–1945)
Reading level
Intermediate: some philosophy helps
Formats
EPUB, PDF
Length
570 pages
First published
1866
This edition
Modern Philosophers