Crime and Punishment
by Fyodor Dostoyevsky · 1866 · 520 pages
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Rodion Raskolnikov, an impoverished student in St. Petersburg, grapples with intense mental anguish and moral dilemmas as he devises a plan to murder a despised pawnbroker for her money. His aim is not only to solve his financial woes but to test his theory of being an extraordinary individual, akin to Napoleon, who can transcend moral laws.
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