What is Crime and Punishment?
{{italictitle}} {{infobox Book | | name = Crime and Punishment | title_orig = Преступление и наказание | translator = | image =Cover of the first edition of Crime and Punishment.jpg | image_caption = 1st edition title page | author = [[Fyodor Dostoevsky]] | cover_artist = | country = | language = [[Russian language|Russian]] | series = | genre = suspense, literary [[novel]] | publisher = The Russian Messenger (series) | release_date = 1866 | media_type = Print (Hardback & Paperback) & Audio book | pages = | isbn = 0-679-73450-3 | dewey= 891.73/3 20 | congress= PG3326 .P7 1993 | oclc= 26399697 | preceded_by = | followed_by = }} '''''Crime and Punishment''''' <ref>{{lang-ru|Преступление и наказание}} ''Prestuplenie i nakazanie''</ref> is a [[novel]] by [[Russian literature |Russian author]] [[Fyodor Dostoevsky]]. It was the first great novel of his mature [[wikt:period|period]].<ref>Frank (1995), p. 96.</ref><ref name=memoirs>{{cite book |last= Dostoevsky |first= Fyodor |title= Memoirs from the House of the Dead |url= https://archive.org/details/memoirsfromhouse0000dost |publisher= Oxford University Press, Inc |date= 2008 |location= Great Britain |isbn= 978-0-19-954051-8}}</ref> It was first published in the literary journal ''The Russian Messenger'' in 12 monthly series in 1866.<ref name=studynotes>{{Cite web |url= http://www1.umn.edu/lol-russ/hpgary/Russ3421/lesson9.htm |title= University of Minnesota - Study notes for Crime and Punishment |work=www1.umn.edu |access-date=13 June 2010}}</ref> It was later published in a single volume. It is the second of Dostoevsky's novels, written after he returned from his punishment ([[exile]] in [[Siberia]]). == Plot == ''Crime and Punishment'' is about the troubles of Raskolnikov, a young man living in [[St. Petersburg]]. He used to be a student, but he became so poor he had to stop studying. He plans to kill a selfish old [[pawnbroker]] for her money, and he acts on his plan. Raskolnikov argue