
Mature
Length22h 25m
About this audiobook
Crime and Punishment is a novel by the Russian author Fyodor Dostoyevsky (sometimes spelled Dostoevsky). It was first published in the literary journal The Russian Messenger in twelve monthly installments during 1866. It was later published in a single volume. This is the second of Dostoyevsky's full-length novels following his return from ten years of exile in Siberia. Crime and Punishment is the first great novel of his "mature" period of writing. Crime and Punishment focuses on the mental anguish and moral dilemmas of Rodion Raskolnikov, an impoverished ex-student in St. Petersburg who formulates and executes a plan to kill an unscrupulous pawnbroker for her cash. Raskolnikov argues that with the pawnbroker's money he can perform good deeds to counterbalance the crime, while ridding the world of a worthless vermin. He also commits this murder to test his own hypothesis that some people are naturally capable of such things, and even have the right to do them. Several times throughout the novel, Raskolnikov justifies his actions by connecting himself mentally with Napoleon Bonaparte, believing that murder is permissible in pursuit of a higher purpose… Constance Clara Garnett (1861 - 1946) was an English translator of nineteenth-century Russian literature. Garnett was one of the first English translators of Leo Tolstoy, Fyodor Dostoyevsky and Anton Chekhov and introduced them on a wide basis to the English-speaking public. Constance Garnett translated 71 volumes of Russian literary works. Her translations received high acclaim from authors such as Joseph Conrad and D. H. Lawrence and are still being reprinted today.
Audiobook details
GenreGeneral Fiction
Length22 hrs 25 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateFeb 20, 2013
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Crime and Punishment
26PART IV
2TRANSLATOR’S PREFACE
27CHAPTER I
3PART I
28CHAPTER II
4CHAPTER I
29CHAPTER III
5CHAPTER II
30CHAPTER IV
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6CHAPTER III
31CHAPTER V
7CHAPTER IV
32CHAPTER VI
8CHAPTER V
33PART V
9CHAPTER VI
34CHAPTER I
10CHAPTER VII
35CHAPTER II
11PART II
36CHAPTER III
12CHAPTER I
37CHAPTER IV
13CHAPTER II
38CHAPTER V
14CHAPTER III
39CHAPTER I
15CHAPTER IV
40CHAPTER II
16CHAPTER V
41CHAPTER III
17CHAPTER VI
42CHAPTER IV
18CHAPTER VII
43CHAPTER V
19PART III
44CHAPTER VI
20CHAPTER I
45CHAPTER VII
21CHAPTER II
46CHAPTER VIII
22CHAPTER III
47EPILOGUE
23CHAPTER IV
48I
24CHAPTER V
49II
25CHAPTER VI