| Description: | Nominated As One Of America's Best-Loved Novels By Pbs's The Great American Read A Desperate Young Man Plans The Perfect Crime--The Murder Of A Despicable Pawnbroker, An Old Women No One Loves And No One Will Mourn Is It Not Just, He Reasons, For A Man Of Genius To Commit Such A Crime, To Transgress Moral Law--If It Will Ultimately Benefit Humanity? So Begins One Of The Greatest Novels Ever Written: A Powerful Psychological Study, A Terrifying Murder Mystery, A Fascinating Detective Thriller Infused With Philosophical, Religious And Social Commentary Raskolnikov, An Impoverished Student Living In A Garret In The Gloomy Slums Of St Petersburg, Carries Out His Grotesque Scheme And Plunges Into A Hell Of Persecution, Madness And Terror Crime And Punishment Takes The Reader On A Journey Into The Darkest Recesses Of The Criminal And Depraved Mind, And Exposes The Soul Of A Man Possessed By Both Good And Evil A Man Who Cannot Escape His Own Conscience |
