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Short Synopsis
The best-known of Fyodor Dostoevsky's masterpieces, Crime and Punishment is the story of a murder committed on principle—of a killer who wishes by his action to set himself outside and above society—and a novel of great physical and psychological tension.
Full Synopsis
A desperate young man plans the perfect crime—the murder of a despicable pawnbroker, an old woman 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, and 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 listener 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.
Author Fyodor Dostoevsky
Narrated by Dick Hill
Publication date Jul 26, 2010
Running time 24 hrs
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