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Crime and Punishment

Fyodor Dostoevsky

Crime and Punishment

Paper book: €80.99

Digital: €16.99

Original publication
1866
Bilingual edition
12 June 2026
Pages
1489
Difficulty
Hard
Genres
Psychology, Philosophy, Romance
Moods
Understand myself, Think it through, Be moved to tears
Translated from
Russian

Book summary

In St Petersburg, Raskolnikov, a very poor former student, lives in a tiny room under the roof. He has convinced himself that certain exceptional men have the right to break the law, and he kills an old pawnbroker with an axe. From then on, fear and fever never leave him, while the cunning and patient magistrate Porfiry seems to read his thoughts.

We know from the start who the murderer is, and yet the suspense never lets up: everything happens in his conscience.

With the translation always in front of you, you can read this masterpiece by Dostoevsky in the language you are learning.

The plot

A poor student and a secret plan. On a stifling summer evening in St Petersburg, Raskolnikov, a former student, slips out of his room unseen. He owes money to his landlady.

The world of the book

St Petersburg, summer 1865. At that time, St Petersburg is the capital of the Russian Empire. The emperor, the tsar, lives in a huge palace on the banks of the River Neva.

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