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Crime and Punishment

Fyodor Dostoevsky

1866British English 48 chapters

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Crime and Punishment tells the story of Rodion Raskolnikov, an ex-student who plans to murder a pawnbroker to test his theory of personality. Having accomplished the deed, Raskolnikov struggles with mental anguish while trying to both avoid the consequences and hide his guilt from his friends and family.

Dostoevsky’s original idea for the novel centered on the Marmeladov family and the impact of alcoholism in Russia, but inspired by a double murder in France he decided to rework it around the new character of Raskolnikov. The novel was first serialized in The Russian Messenger over the course of 1866, where it was an instant success. It was published in a single volume in 1867. Presented here is Constance Garnett’s 1914 translation.

Chapters

48 · 23 hr 2 min

This recording

Narrator
Algieba (synthetic, male), Gemini 3.1 Flash TTS
Language
British English
Audio
AAC 69 kbps, 24 kHz, mono
Text
Standard Ebooks edition
License
CC0, public domain