Crime And Punishment HB Penguin Clothbound Classics

“Crime and Punishment” (Penguin Clothbound Classics hardback, in David McDuff’s translation) is Dostoevsky’s seminal psychological and moral novel about a murder and its aftermath in 19th‑century St Petersburg. Destitute ex‑student Rodion Raskolnikov convinces himself he is a “great man” above ordinary morality and kills a pawnbroker, only to find his guilt, fear, and conflicted conscience tightening around him as a sharp investigator and the compassionate, suffering Sonya draw him toward confession and possible redemption.