Crime and Punishment
Crime and Punishment is a novel by Fyodor Dostoevsky, published in 1866, following a poor Russian student who murders a pawnbroker and struggles with guilt and moral torment.
The title has become shorthand for the relationship between wrongdoing and its consequences: Every parent wrestles with crime and punishment when their kid misbehaves.
- Dostoevsky19th-century Russian author
- Russian literatureFiction from that vast nation
- theftUnlawful taking of property
- lawBinding principle or regulation
- statuteEnacted written rule
imprisonment · prison sentence · hard labor · doing time · fines · retribution · redemption · murder · guilty conscience · justice · plea bargain · exile · morality · St. Petersburg · judiciary · culpability · rehabilitation · fraud
- Russian LiteratureTolstoy, Dostoevsky, Chekhov, Pushkin, Nabokov
- Classic NovelsAnna Karenina, Madame Bovary, War and Peace, Middlemarch, Great Expectations
- Russian ClassicsWar and Peace, Anna Karenina, The Brothers Karamazov, Doctor Zhivago, Cherry Orchard
- Slavic LiteratureDostoevsky, Tolstoy, Chekhov, Pushkin, Nabokov
- Translated ClassicsDon Quixote, Divine Comedy, Iliad, Odyssey, Aeneid
- Petersburg LiteratureDostoevsky, Pushkin, Nabokov, Leningrad
Crime and PunishmentPride and Prejudice
Regency courtship novel
The Importance of Being Earnest · A Midsummer Night's Dream · Emma · Anne of Green Gables · Don Quixote
Crime and PunishmentTreasure Island
Adventure tale with pirates
The Three Musketeers · pulp fiction · King Solomon's Mines · The Scarlet Pimpernel · Robinson Crusoe
crime, punishment, crimes, criminal, criminals, criminally, criminality, criminalize, criminalized