Conscience

Crime and Punishment

by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

A student commits a murder he has already justified to himself in an essay, then spends four hundred pages failing to enjoy having gotten away with it. Guilt, this book argues, is not a moral failure but a kind of terrible honesty. Read it slowly; it was not built for skimming.

The librarian

Read it in the Library After Dark Or read it as plain text

Reading time

About 13 hr 40 min

Where to find it

On the Conscience shelves

Edition

Project Gutenberg, eBook #2554. In the public domain in the United States.