Amazon.com description: Product Description: Welcome to Fyodor Dostoyevsky’s Crime And Punishment. In this edition of this novel, first published in 1866, we are proud to offer you the best edition of this literary masterpiece featuring one of the most acclaimed classics of all times. Crime and Punishment was first published in the literary journal The Russian Messenger in twelve monthly installments during 1866. It was later published in a single volume. It is the second of Fyodor Dostoyevsky’s full-length novels following his return from ten years of exile in Siberia. Crime and Punishment is considered the first great novel of his "mature" period of writing. Crime and Punishment focuses on the mental anguish and moral dilemmas of Rodion Raskolnikov, an impoverished ex-student in St. Petersburg who formulates a plan to kill an unscrupulous pawnbroker for her cash. Raskolnikov argues that with the pawnbroker's money he can perform good deeds to counterbalance the crime, while ridding the world of a worthless vermin. Is murder permissible in pursuit of a higher purpose? Enjoy this Mogul Classics edition of Fyodor Dostoyevsky’s Crime And Punishment.