Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
40 episodes - English - Latest episode: over 4 years ago - ★★ - 24 ratingsA mysterious crime is being plotted in a tiny garret above a dilapidated apartment building in St Petersburg in Russia. The plotter, Rodion Raskolinikov, is a poor student who has delusions of ridding the world of “worthless vermin” and counter balancing these crimes with good deeds. He commits a murder to test his own theories and prove that crime comes naturally to the human species.
Crime and Punishment is a path-breaking novel of ideas that changed the course of novel writing in the 20th century. The intense insights into the workings of the human mind had seldom been attempted by any writer anywhere in the world till then. The author, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, was the son of a hardworking but indigent doctor in Moscow. He was educated in boarding schools and later at a military academy from which he graduated as a military engineer. However, his heart was set on becoming a writer and he left the army to pursue a life devoted to writing. He was also deeply involved in the politics of the time and was sentenced to four years in a prison camp in Siberia for being part of an anarchist group.
In Siberia, he underwent an ideological change and reverted to traditional/conservative ideas. Crime and Punishment was published in serial form in a literary journal in 1866 after he returned from Siberia. His father's sudden and brutal killing by serfs on their own estate probably provided the trigger for the ideas expressed in the book. His father was an authoritarian despot, while his mother was a weak and fearful person and many of Dostoyevsky's novels contain images that portray these contradictions.
The book is divided into six parts and it is quite a formidable task reading through the entire novel. However, the sheer size, scope and scale of the book carries even the most timid reader along as it traces social realities, psychological aspects of crime and the effect of environment on the minds of vulnerable people. The book met with immense acclaim as it emerged in serial form and was soon compiled in book form. Several English translations followed, as well as those in other languages. More than 25 film adaptations, numerous references in books, television and contemporary writings have kept its appeal alive for generations of readers.
Its enduring fascination for modern day readers remains in its themes of alienation and loneliness, the idea of a Superman above the conventions and rules of society and its deep insights into the inner life of a young person on the brink of adulthood.
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01 – Part 1 Chapter 1
January 02, 2024 00:00 - 30 minutes - 13.4 MBMore great books at LoyalBooks.com
02 – Part 1 Chapter 2
January 01, 2024 00:00 - 10 minutes - 31.5 MBMore great books at LoyalBooks.com
03 – Part 1 Chapter 3
December 31, 2023 00:00 - 50 minutes - 22.9 MBMore great books at LoyalBooks.com
04 – Part 1 Chapter 4
December 30, 2023 00:00 - 46 minutes - 21 MBMore great books at LoyalBooks.com
05 – Part 1 Chapter 5
December 29, 2023 00:00 - 34 minutes - 15.3 MBMore great books at LoyalBooks.com
06 – Part 1 Chapter 6
December 28, 2023 00:00 - 39 minutes - 17.2 MBMore great books at LoyalBooks.com
07 – Part 1 Chapter 7
December 27, 2023 00:00 - 40 minutes - 18.1 MBMore great books at LoyalBooks.com
08 – Part 2 Chapter 1
December 26, 2023 00:00 - 45 minutes - 20 MBMore great books at LoyalBooks.com
09 – Part 2 Chapter 2
December 25, 2023 00:00 - 28 minutes - 12.4 MBMore great books at LoyalBooks.com
10 – Part 2 Chapter 3
December 24, 2023 00:00 - 33 minutes - 15.3 MBMore great books at LoyalBooks.com
11 – Part 2 Chapter 4
December 23, 2023 00:00 - 30 minutes - 13.4 MBMore great books at LoyalBooks.com
12 – Part 2 Chapter 5
December 22, 2023 00:00 - 26 minutes - 11.4 MBMore great books at LoyalBooks.com
13 – Part 2 Chapter 6
December 21, 2023 00:00 - 43 minutes - 19.1 MBMore great books at LoyalBooks.com
14 – Part 2 Chapter 7
December 20, 2023 00:00 - 42 minutes - 19.1 MBMore great books at LoyalBooks.com
15 – Part 3 Chapter 1
December 19, 2023 00:00 - 34 minutes - 15.3 MBMore great books at LoyalBooks.com
16 – Part 3 Chapter 2
December 18, 2023 00:00 - 28 minutes - 12.4 MBMore great books at LoyalBooks.com
17 – Part 3 Chapter 3
December 17, 2023 00:00 - 29 minutes - 13.4 MBMore great books at LoyalBooks.com
18 – Part 3 Chapter 4
December 16, 2023 00:00 - 31 minutes - 14.3 MBMore great books at LoyalBooks.com
19 – Part 3 Chapter 5
December 15, 2023 00:00 - 42 minutes - 19.1 MBMore great books at LoyalBooks.com
20 – Part 3 Chapter 6
December 14, 2023 00:00 - 32 minutes - 14.3 MBMore great books at LoyalBooks.com
21 – Part 4 Chapter 1
December 13, 2023 00:00 - 28 minutes - 12.4 MBMore great books at LoyalBooks.com
22 – Part 4 Chapter 2
December 12, 2023 00:00 - 28 minutes - 12.4 MBMore great books at LoyalBooks.com
23 – Part 4 Chapter 3
December 11, 2023 00:00 - 17 minutes - 7.63 MBMore great books at LoyalBooks.com
24 – Part 4 Chapter 4
December 10, 2023 00:00 - 36 minutes - 16.2 MBMore great books at LoyalBooks.com
25 – Part 4 Chapter 5
December 09, 2023 00:00 - 41 minutes - 18.1 MBMore great books at LoyalBooks.com
26 – Part 4 Chapter 6
December 08, 2023 00:00 - 21 minutes - 9.54 MBMore great books at LoyalBooks.com
27 – Part 5 Chapter 1
December 07, 2023 00:00 - 45 minutes - 20 MBMore great books at LoyalBooks.com
28 – Part 5 Chapter 2
December 06, 2023 00:00 - 34 minutes - 15.3 MBMore great books at LoyalBooks.com
29 – Part 5 Chapter 3
December 05, 2023 00:00 - 33 minutes - 15.3 MBMore great books at LoyalBooks.com
30 – Part 5 Chapter 4
December 04, 2023 00:00 - 43 minutes - 20 MBMore great books at LoyalBooks.com
31 – Part 5 Chapter 5
December 03, 2023 00:00 - 30 minutes - 13.4 MBMore great books at LoyalBooks.com
32 – Part 6 Chapter 1
December 02, 2023 00:00 - 23 minutes - 10.5 MBMore great books at LoyalBooks.com
33 – Part 6 Chapter 2
December 01, 2023 00:00 - 32 minutes - 14.3 MBMore great books at LoyalBooks.com
34 – Part 6 Chapter 3
November 30, 2023 00:00 - 26 minutes - 11.4 MBMore great books at LoyalBooks.com
35 – Part 6 Chapter 4
November 29, 2023 00:00 - 33 minutes - 14.3 MBMore great books at LoyalBooks.com
36 – Part 6 Chapter 5
November 28, 2023 00:00 - 43 minutes - 19.1 MBMore great books at LoyalBooks.com
37 – Part 6 Chapter 6
November 27, 2023 00:00 - 33 minutes - 14.3 MBMore great books at LoyalBooks.com
38 – Part 6 Chapter 7
November 26, 2023 00:00 - 27 minutes - 11.4 MBMore great books at LoyalBooks.com
39 – Part 6 Chapter 8
November 25, 2023 00:00 - 27 minutes - 12.4 MBMore great books at LoyalBooks.com