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Crime and Punishment

Fyodor Dostoevsky 1866
ClassicPsychologicalRussian literature

A novel about a theory carried to its conclusion, and the guilt that follows it through Petersburg.

Reading Note

Crime and Punishment spends far less time on the crime than on the airless weeks after it: a man argues himself into a theory, then finds that his body and his conscience never agreed to it.