Crime and punishment /
Fyodor Dostoyevsky ; translated with an introduction and notes by David McDuff.
- London ; New York : Penguin, 2003
- xxxiv, 671 pages.
- Penguin classics .
Includes bibliographical references (p. [xxiii]-xxiv).
Raskolnikov, a destitute and desperate former student, wanders through the slums of St Petersburg and commits a random murder without remorse or regret. He imagines himself to be a great man, a Napoleon: acting for a higher purpose beyond conventional moral law. But as he embarks on a dangerous game of cat and mouse with a suspicious police investigator, Raskolnikov is pursued by the growing voice of his conscience and finds the noose of his own guilt tightening around his neck. Only Sonya, a downtrodden prostitute, can offer the chance of redemption.