In the suffocating streets of St. Petersburg, a desperate young man commits a brutal crime and discovers that the deepest punishment comes not from the law, but from his own conscience. As guilt, fear, pride, and moral torment tighten around him, Rodion Raskolnikov is drawn into a harrowing struggle between reason and remorse, isolation and confession, despair and redemption. Dark, intense, and profoundly human, Crime and Punishment is one of the greatest psychological novels ever written. The novel was first published in 1866, and Dostoyevsky died in 1881.