Crime and Punishment Published
Fyodor Dostoevsky published Crime and Punishment, one of the greatest novels in world literature.
In 1866, Fyodor Dostoevsky published Crime and Punishment, a psychological novel that follows the tormented student Raskolnikov as he commits murder and struggles with guilt, morality, and redemption in St. Petersburg. The novel explores themes of poverty, justice, nihilism, and the nature of suffering. Widely regarded as one of the supreme achievements of world literature, it pioneered the psychological novel and profoundly influenced writers, philosophers, and psychologists including Nietzsche, Kafka, and Freud.
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