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Fyodor Dostoevsky · 1866
Crime and Punishment
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A stifling Petersburg summer, a pawned watch, and an ex-student with a theory: that an extraordinary man may step over the law if his ends are great enough. Raskolnikov puts the theory to the axe, then spends the rest of Dostoevsky's 1866 masterpiece finding out what it costs — hunted less by the police than by his own mind.
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