Crime and Punishment

Fyodor Dostoyevsky; Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky (Translated by)

'The old woman was merely a sickness . . .it wasn't a human being I killed, it was a principle!'A troubled young man commits the perfect crime - the murder of a vile pawnbroker whom no one will miss. Raskolnikov is desperate for money, but convinces himself that his motive for the murder is to benefit m...