{"product_id":"9780553211757","title":"Crime and Punishment","description":"\u003cb\u003eFyodor Dostoevsky’s masterpiece: a powerful psychological study, a terrifying murder mystery, and a fascinating detective thriller infused with philosophical, religious, and social commentary\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eOne of \u003ci\u003eTime\u003c\/i\u003e’s 100 Best Mystery and Thriller Books of All Time • Nominated as one of America’s best-loved novels by PBS’s \u003ci\u003eThe Great American Read\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA desperate young man plans the perfect crime—the murder of a despicable pawnbroker, an old woman no one loves and no one will mourn. Is it not just, he reasons, for a man of genius to commit such a crime, to transgress moral law—if it will ultimately benefit humanity? So begins \u003ci\u003eCrime and Punishment,\u003c\/i\u003e one of the greatest novels ever written.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eRaskolnikov, an impoverished student living in a garret in the gloomy slums of St. Petersburg, carries out his grotesque scheme and plunges into a hell of persecution, madness and terror. \u003ci\u003eCrime and Punishment\u003c\/i\u003e takes the reader on a journey into the darkest recesses of the criminal and depraved mind, and exposes the soul of a man possessed by both good and evil . . . a man who cannot escape his own conscience.","brand":"Fyodor Dostoevsky","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":49336787370124,"sku":"9780553211757","price":11.95,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0759\/9580\/7884\/files\/BNCImageAPI_4167a9b5-070c-4cfb-9316-6fddbf09c14a.jpg?v=1777843931","url":"https:\/\/pickadilly-books-coffee.myshopify.com\/products\/9780553211757","provider":"Pickadilly Books \u0026 Coffee ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}