“El crimen y el castigo” by Fyodor Dostoyevsky is a novel first published in 1866. An impoverished former law student in Saint Petersburg plans to murder a pawnbroker, convincing himself that certain crimes are justifiable when committed by “extraordinary” men for higher purposes. But once the deed is done, he finds himself consumed by confusion, paranoia, and guilt. His theoretical justifications crumble as he confronts the internal and external consequences of hisactions, plunging into profound mental anguish and moral turmoil. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
| Author | Dostoyevsky, Fyodor, 1821-1881 |
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| Translator | Pedraza y Páez, Pedro, 1877- |
| Uniform Title | Prestuplenie i nakazanie. Spanish |
| Title | El crimen y el castigo |
| Credits |
Produced by Carlos Colón, the University of Toronto, the Internet Archive and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net (This book was produced from images made available by the HathiTrust Digital Library.) |
| Reading Level | Reading ease score: 57.2 (10th to 12th grade). Somewhat difficult to read. |
| Language | 西班牙语 |
| LoC Class | PG: Language and Literatures: Slavic (including Russian), Languages and Literature |
| Subject |
Detective and mystery stories |
| Subject |
Psychological fiction |
| Subject |
Saint Petersburg (Russia) — Fiction |
| Subject |
Murder — Fiction |
| Subject |
Crime — Psychological aspects — Fiction |
| Category | Text |
| eBook-No. | 61851 |
| Copyright | Public domain in the USA. |
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