Summary of Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky

Could you commit the perfect crime? Is there such a thing as a “just murder” that costs the life of one person but benefits many others? Can rational considerations silence the human conscience? Fyodor Dostoevsky investigates these questions in his classic novel Crime and Punishment. The best-known work of this Russian author masterfully depicts the destitute student Raskolnikov’s murder of an old...