Crime and Punishment: A Review

Fyodor Dostoevsky was born in Moscow in 1821. In 1846, his book Poor Folk brought him instant success as a writer (Sher). This success however, was cut short due to an arrest because of his active participation in printing and distributing socialist propaganda (Sher). While in prison, Dostoevsky underwent a political conversion, rejecting socialist ideals for a more conservative stance in politics (Sher). This conversion formed the basis for many of his great novels, such as Crime …showed first 75 words of 861 total…

…showed last 75 words of 861 total…one novel - from fear and guilt, to feelings of love and regret. This book would be excellent for anyone interested in criminal psychology, or the philosophy of Nietzsche, or even just philosophy in general. Crime and Punishment pulls you into it’s pages, brings you close to it’s characters, and makes you care about the outcome of their lives, which I believe is the single quality that has rendered this novel a classic.