By: | Fyodor Dostoyevsky |
Pages: | 644 |
Published: | 1866 |
Genre(s): | Russia |
Crime | |
Philosophy | |
Rating: | (18) |
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Could an ordinary person, with no hint of malice and no motive but discovering what it feels like to do it, plot to kill and then actually murder a total stranger? What if the stranger were a thoroughly unlikable person hated by everyone who came into contact with her? One of the great novels of world literature, Crime and Punishment is a thriller of the conscience, one that wrangles with...
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This is one of those long classics, but I listened to it through Audible.com and it was made enjoyable by Anthony Heald who did a fantastic performance of it. A man commits a horrible crime and suffers for it throughout the rest of the story, anguishing over his secret, always fearful of being discovered.
Jan 21st, 2019
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60th on The Big Read by BBC