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CRIME AND PUNISHMENT - FJODOR M DOSTOJEWSKIJ TA...

Crime and Punishment is a novel by the Russian author Fyodor Dostoyevsky (sometimes spelled
Dostoevsky). It was first published in the literary journal The Russian Messenger in twelve
monthly installments during 1866. It was later published in a single volume. This is the second
of Dostoyevsky's full-length novels following his return from ten years of exile in Siberia.
Crime and Punishment is the first great novel of his mature period of writing. Crime and
Punishment focuses on the mental anguish and moral dilemmas of Rodion Raskolnikov  an
impoverished ex-student in St. Petersburg who formulates and executes a plan to kill an
unscrupulous pawnbroker for her cash. Raskolnikov argues that with the pawnbroker's money he
can perform good deeds to counterbalance the crime  while ridding the world of a worthless
vermin. He also commits this murder to test his own hypothesis that some people are naturally
capable of such things  and even have the right to do them. Several times throughout the novel
Raskolnikov justifies his actions by connecting himself mentally with Napoleon Bonaparte 
believing that murder is permissible in pursuit of a higher purpose... Count Lev Nikolayevich
Tolstoy (1828 - 1910)  usually referred to in English as Leo Tolstoy  was a Russian writer who
is regarded as one of the greatest authors of all time. Constance Clara Garnett (1861 - 1946)
was an English translator of nineteenth-century Russian literature. Garnett was one of the
first English translators of Leo Tolstoy  Fyodor Dostoyevsky and Anton Chekhov and introduced
them on a wide basis to the English-speaking public.

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