"CRIME AND PUNISHMENT"(Witer FYODOR DOSTOEVSKY):From the beginning we are locked into thefrenzied consciousness of Raskolnikov who, against his betterinstincts, is inexorably drawn to commit a brutal double murder.

Crime and Punishment is one of the greatest and most readablenovels ever written. From the beginning we are locked into thefrenzied consciousness of Raskolnikov who, against his betterinstincts, is inexorably drawn to commit a brutal double murder.

From that moment on, we share his conflicting feelings ofself-loathing and pride, of contempt for and need of others, and ofhis terrible despair and hope of redemption: and, in a remarkabletransformation of the detective novel, we follow his agonisedefforts to probe and confront both his own motives for, and theconsequences of, his crime.