Преступление и наказание / Crime and Punishment | Русская классика на английском языке

The great Russian writer Fyodor Dostoyevsky (1821–1881) is best known to the readers throughout the world primarily thanks to his “Great Five Books” — the novels The Brothers Karamazov, The Idiot, Crime and Punishment, The Possessed and The Adolescent. They were repeatedly translated into foreign languages and published in many countries. Films and series were shot on them, spectacles were staged.

We offer the readers the novel Crime and Punishment. Rodion Raskolnikov, the protagonist of the novel, is carried away by Nietzsche’s ideas about dividing people into the “trembling creatures” and “the ones who have the right”. Desiring to test himself, he makes a plan for killing the old pawnbroker woman…