A poor student in St. Petersburg commits a brutal murder, convinced that his extraordinary intellect places him above ordinary moral laws. As guilt, fear, and paranoia consume him, he is drawn into a tense psychological struggle with a perceptive investigator and a compassionate young woman. Dostoevsky's powerful novel explores conscience, redemption, suffering, and the possibility of moral rebirth. Crime and Punishment is an unchanged, high-quality reprint of the original edition of 1866.