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Crime and Punishment
Fyodor Dostoevsky · 1866 · Drama & Literary, Crime & Thriller
In feverish Saint Petersburg, an impoverished former student tests a theory of exceptional people against debt, compassion, conscience and the irreducible reality of other lives.
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This edition
- Title
- Crime and Punishment
- Author
- Fyodor Dostoevsky (1821–1881)
- First published
- 1866
- Illustrated plates
- 103 original artworks · 32 open to everyone
- Chapters
- 41 · about 202,994 words
- Reading time
- 13 h 32 min
- Language
- EN
- Formats
- Read online · EPUB and PDF download with a subscription
- Publisher
- LitLab — The Illustrated Classics
- On LitLab since
- August 2026
- Rights
- Text in the public domain. Illustrations and edition © LitLab.
- Source text
- Project Gutenberg #2554
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