“Crime and Punishment” Back Cover of The Book:
‘SUFFERING IS PART AND PARCEL OF EXTENSIVE INTELLIGENCE AND A FEELING HEART. A MAN WHO IS REALLY GREAT, IT SEEMS TO ME, MUST SUFFER CONSIDERABLY HERE BELOW.
Raskolnikoff, a destitute and desperate former student, wanders through the slums of St. Petersburg and commits a random murder without remorse or regret. He imagines himself to be a great man,
a Napoleon: acting for a higher purpose beyond conventional moral law. But as he embarks on a dangerous game of cat and mouse with a suspicious police investigator, Raskolnikoff is pursued by the growing voice of his conscience and finds the noose of his own guilt tightening around his neck. Only Sonia, a downtrodden prostitute, can offer the chance of redemption.
