A psychological novel in the great Russian tradition, Crime and Punishment asks the question: What is the nature of punishment for a person who commits a crime without remorse?
The title, Fyodor Dostoevsky’s Crime and Punishment, part of Chelsea House Publishers’ Modern Critical Interpretations series, presents the most important 20th-century criticism on Fyodor Dostoevsky’s Crime and Punishment through extracts of critical essays by well-known literary critics. This collection of criticism also features a short biography on Fyodor Dostoevsky, a chronology of the author’s life, and an introductory essay written by Harold Bloom, Sterling Professor of the Humanities, Yale University.
