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Crime and Punishment

Fyodor Dostoevsky

The deepest psychological novel ever written, exploring guilt, redemption, and the danger of ideas taken to their logical extremes.

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Power is given only to those who dare to lower themselves and pick it up. There is only one thing, one thing needful: to dare!

Fyodor Dostoevsky

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The deepest psychological novel ever written, exploring guilt, redemption, and the danger of ideas taken to their logical extremes. Raskolnikov is the prototype for a century of fictional antiheroes.

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The psychological story of a student who murders a pawnbroker and struggles with guilt. One of the greatest explorations of the criminal mind in literature.

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The deepest psychological novel ever written, exploring guilt, redemption, and the danger of ideas taken to their logical extremes. Raskolnikov is the prototype for a century of fictional antiheroes.

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The psychological story of a student who murders a pawnbroker and struggles with guilt. One of the greatest explorations of the criminal mind in literature.

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