Crime and Punishment

<b><b>One of <i>Time</i>&#146;s<i> </i>100 Best Mystery and Thriller Books of All Time &#149; </b>Nominated as one of America&#146;s best-loved novels by PBS&#146;s <i>The Great American Read </i></b><br><br>A desperate young man plans the perfect crime&#151;the murder of a despicable pawnbroker an old women no one loves and no one will mourn. Is it not just he reasons for a man of genius to commit such a crime to transgress moral law&#151;if it will ultimately benefit humanity? So begins one of the greatest novels ever written: a powerful psychological study a terrifying murder mystery a fascinating detective thriller infused with philosophical religious and social commentary. Raskolnikov an impoverished student living in a garret in the gloomy slums of St. Petersburg carries out his grotesque scheme and plunges into a hell of persecution madness and terror. <i>Crime and Punishment</i> takes the reader on a journey into the darkest recesses of the criminal and depraved mind and exposes the soul of a man possessed by both good and evil . . . a man who cannot escape his own conscience.