Crime and Punishment

Dostoevsky was the son of a doctor. His parents were very hard working and deeply religious people,...

I want to attempt a thing like that and am frightened by these trifles, he thought, with an odd...

So the sun will shine like this then too. flashed as it were by chance through Raskolnikovs mind,...

All thats nonsense, he said hopefully, and there is nothing in it all to worry about. Its simply...

No, I am studying, answered the young man, somewhat surprised at the grandiloquent style of the...

Well, the orator began again stolidly and with even increased dignity, after waiting for the...

Marmeladov struck his forehead with his fist, clenched his teeth, closed his eyes and leaned...

Ah. she cried out in a frenzy, he has come back. The criminal. the monster.... And where is the...

It would have been difficult to sink to a lower ebb of disorder, but to Raskolnikov in his present...

His mothers letter had been a torture to him, but as regards the chief fact in it, he had felt not...

Raskolnikov did not sit down, but he felt unwilling to leave her, and stood facing her in...

He has carried off my twenty copecks, Raskolnikov murmured angrily when he was left alone. Well,...

After It, he shouted, jumping up from the seat, but is It really going to happen. Is it possible it...

... He ran beside the mare, ran in front of her, saw her being whipped across the eyes, right in...

No, I couldnt do it, I couldnt do it. Granted, granted that there is no flaw in all that reasoning,...

Certainly, if he had to wait whole years for a suitable opportunity, he could not reckon on a more...

From her queerness. No, Ill tell you what. I could kill that damned old woman and make off with her...

When he had finished with this, he thrust his hand into a little opening between his sofa and the...

He walked along quietly and sedately, without hurry, to avoid awakening suspicion. He scarcely...

No answer. To go on ringing was useless and out of place. The old woman was, of course, at home,...

But no sooner did he touch the clothes than a gold watch slipped from under the fur coat. He made...

At last when the unknown was mounting to the fourth floor, he suddenly started, and succeeded in...

He knew, he knew perfectly well that at that moment they were at the flat, that they were greatly...

Suddenly he remembered that the purse and the things he had taken out of the old womans box were...

Raskolnikov made no response and held the paper in his hands, without opening it. Dont you get up...

In the street the heat was insufferable again; not a drop of rain had fallen all those days. Again...

The lady in mourning had done at last, and got up. All at once, with some noise, an officer walked...

There was no sort of noise or fighting in my house, Mr. Captain, she pattered all at once, like...

But excuse me, excuse me. It is for me to explain... how it all happened... In my turn... though I...

That had long been settled. Fling them into the canal, and all traces hidden in the water, the...

If it all has really been done deliberately and not idiotically, if I really had a certain and...

Well, then, I came to you because I know no one but you who could help... to begin... because you...

He could never have imagined such brutality, such frenzy. In terror he sat up in bed, almost...

Dont want the money. Come, brother, thats nonsense, I bear witness. Dont trouble, please, its only...

Ill make a note of it. Well, brother, to make a long story short, I was going in for a regular...

Good God, only tell me one thing. do they know of it yet or not. What if they know it and are only...

Twenty copecks, silly. he cried, offended. Why, nowadays you would cost more than that eighty...

Well, he does. and what of it. I dont care if he does take bribes, Razumihin cried with unnatural...

I am not talking of the evidence now, I am talking about that question, of their own idea of...

This was a gentleman no longer young, of a stiff and portly appearance, and a cautious and sour...

Meanwhile Raskolnikov, who had turned a little towards him when he answered, began suddenly staring...

Excuse me, Ive very little wit myself, Razumihin cut in sharply, and so let us drop it. I began...

But Luzhin was already leaving without finishing his speech, squeezing between the table and the...

Raskolnikov crossed the square. In that corner there was a dense crowd of peasants. He pushed his...

By way of a fee. You profit by everything. Raskolnikov laughed, its all right, my dear boy, he...

They. They are children, simpletons, not criminals. Why, half a hundred people meeting for such an...

You dont believe it then. What were you talking about behind my back when I went out of the police...

R rubbish. Razumihin shouted, out of patience. How do you know. You cant answer for yourself. You...

To reach the police office he had to go straight forward and take the second turning to the left....

An elegant carriage stood in the middle of the road with a pair of spirited grey horses; there was...

He was listening to what his mother was saying to his sister, sitting perfectly still with pouting...

Meanwhile the room had become so full of people that you couldnt have dropped a pin. The policemen...

The doctor came in, a precise little old man, a German, looking about him mistrustfully; he went up...

Ah, father. Thats words and only words. Forgive. If hed not been run over, hed have come home to...

He walked down slowly and deliberately, feverish but not conscious of it, entirely absorbed in a...

I am very weak at this moment, but... I believe my illness is all over. I knew it would be over...

Oh, not mad. I must have said too much, brother.... What struck him, you see, was that only that...

You think I am delirious. No... You are marrying Luzhin for my sake. But I wont accept the...

Though Pulcheria Alexandrovna was not perfectly convinced, she made no further resistance....

Ah, that illness. What will happen, what will happen. And how he talked to you, Dounia. said the...

It wont be much trouble, I assure you. Talk any rot you like to her, as long as you sit by her and...

And... the worst of it was he was so coarse, so dirty, he had the manners of a pothouse; and... and...

Naturally, answered Razumihin. I have no mother, but my uncle comes every year and almost every...

I think so, too, Pulcheria Alexandrovna agreed with a dejected air. But she was very much surprised...

While she said this she was hurriedly putting on her hat and mantle; Dounia, too, put on her...

Yes, I see myself now that I am almost well, said Raskolnikov, giving his mother and sister a kiss...

And how well he does it all, the mother was thinking to herself. What generous impulses he has, and...

That had happened in the morning, Pulcheria Alexandrovna went on hurriedly. And directly afterwards...

He fixed a strained intent look on his sister, but did not hear or did not understand her words....

And why are you blushing again. You are lying, sister. You are intentionally lying, simply from...

Quite right, Dounia. Well, since you have decided, added Pulcheria Alexandrovna, so be it. I shall...

During the conversation, Raskolnikov watched her carefully. She had a thin, very thin, pale little...

Well, you will see.... She worries me; but you will see, you will see. I was so frightened. She was...

He was a man about fifty, rather tall and thickly set, with broad high shoulders which made him...

Yes, brother, I assure you its noticeable. Why, you sat on your chair in a way you never do sit, on...

Thats just the point, that at the present moment, Raskolnikov tried his utmost to feign...

But how could you have gone out if you hadnt been delirious. Razumihin got hot suddenly. What did...

Razumihin was almost in a frenzy. Oh, if you like, he roared. Ill prove to you that your white...

Thank you. But tell me this. how do you distinguish those extraordinary people from the ordinary...

Well, you may abuse me, be angry with me if you like, Porfiry Petrovitch began again, but I cant...

If they had had facts I mean, real facts or at least grounds for suspicion, then they would...

I am getting a relish for certain aspects. he thought to himself. But almost at the same instant he...

With slow faltering steps, with shaking knees, Raskolnikov made his way back to his little garret,...

He lost consciousness; it seemed strange to him that he didnt remember how he got into the street....

But what are you laughing at. Only consider, I struck her just twice with a switch there were no...

She has been three times. I saw her first on the very day of the funeral, an hour after she was...

I am sure that you must have formed your own opinion of this Mr. Luzhin, who is a connection of...

But I am very anxious to see Avdotya Romanovna once. I earnestly beg it. Well, good bye for the...

Pyotr Petrovitch belonged to that class of persons, on the surface very polite in society, who make...

An hour and a half ago, he came in when I was asleep, waked me, and introduced himself, Raskolnikov...

What. cried Dounia, flushing. I set your interest beside all that has hitherto been most precious...

What. So thats how it stands. cried Luzhin, utterly unable to the last moment to believe in the...

No, I, I am more to blame than anyone. said Dounia, kissing and embracing her mother. I was tempted...

Why, why should we let our chance slip when we have one of the chief means of success money of our...

I will not attempt to describe how Razumihin went back to the ladies, how he soothed them, how he...

Oh, no, dont talk like that.... We are one, we live like one. Sonia was agitated again and even...

But, nevertheless, it was clear to him again that with her character and the amount of education...

Youll understand later. Havent you done the same. You, too, have transgressed... have had the...

He found Porfiry Petrovitch alone in his study. His study was a room neither large nor small,...

Porfiry Petrovitch, he began resolutely, though with considerable irritation, yesterday you...

Its a lesson, he thought, turning cold. This is beyond the cat playing with a mouse, like...

Yes, in our legal practice there was a case almost exactly similar, a case of morbid psychology,...

Briefly, he said loudly and imperiously, rising to his feet and in so doing pushing Porfiry back a...

He still remained on his knees. Porfiry Petrovitch stood for some moments as though meditating, but...

I was vexed. When you came, perhaps in drink, and bade the porters go to the police station and...

Andrey Semyonovitch had been at home all the morning. The attitude of Pyotr Petrovitch to this...

You keep on like that because you are out of humour yourself.... But thats nonsense and it has...

You are always thinking of something unpleasant, he cried with aversion. Tfoo. How vexed I am that...

I understand. Lebeziatnikov saw the point. Yes, you are right.... Of course, I am convinced...

I dont know... this is only to day, once in her life.... She was so anxious to do honour, to...

There was no great variety of wines, nor was there Madeira; but wine there was. There was vodka,...

Here her laugh turned again to an insufferable fit of coughing that lasted five minutes. Drops of...

My late husband certainly had that weakness, and everyone knows it, Katerina Ivanovna attacked him...

Though Katerina Ivanovna tried to appear to be disdainfully unaware of it, she raised her voice and...

Allow me, madam.... Allow me. Pyotr Petrovitch waved her off. Your papa as you are well aware I had...

Exclamations arose on all sides. Raskolnikov was silent, keeping his eyes fixed on Sonia, except...

I saw it, I saw it, Lebeziatnikov repeated, and though it is against my principles, I am ready this...

Yes, yes, thats it, Lebeziatnikov assented gleefully, that must be it, for he asked me, as soon as...

What. As though that godless calumny was not enough this vile creature attacks me. What. On the day...

He could not utter a word. This was not at all, not at all the way he had intended to tell and he...

No, Sonia, he broke in hurriedly, that money was not it. Dont worry yourself. That money my mother...

You are right again, Sonia. Of course thats all nonsense, its almost all talk. You see, you know of...

But how did I murder her. Is that how men do murders. Do men go to commit a murder as I went then....

Ive come to you, Sofya Semyonovna, he began. Excuse me... I thought I should find you, he said,...

Brother, now I know all, all. Dmitri Prokofitch has explained and told me everything. They are...

And she, almost crying herself which did not stop her uninterrupted, rapid flow of talk pointed to...

All ran up and crowded around. Raskolnikov and Lebeziatnikov were the first at her side, the...

Sonia fell upon her, flung her arms about her, and remained motionless with her head pressed to the...

Katerina Ivanovnas body was still lying in the coffin, Svidrigalov was busy making arrangements for...

Well, its pretty plain. Wherever I might go, whatever happened to me, you would remain to look...

Hes a political conspirator, theres not a doubt about it, Razumihin decided, as he slowly descended...

You didnt expect a visitor, Rodion Romanovitch, Porfiry explained, laughing. Ive been meaning to...

Now, why need you have come. Your laughter, too, as you came in, do you remember. I saw it all...

No, Rodion Romanovitch, Nikolay doesnt come in. This is a fantastic, gloomy business, a modern...

Who am I. I am a man with nothing to hope for, thats all. A man perhaps of feeling and sympathy,...

But what could they have in common. Their very evil doing could not be of the same kind. The man,...

Oh, thats the way with all you folk, laughed Svidrigalov. You wont admit it, even if you do...

How can I tell you. How do I know. You see in what a tavern I spend all my time and its my...

Upon my word, I am not, answered Svidrigalov laughing. However, I wont dispute it, let me be a...

Why, of course. Everyone thinks of himself, and he lives most gaily who knows best how to deceive...

As you like, its nothing to me, but I wont come with you; here we are at home. By the way, I am...

He met her at the entrance to the bridge, but passed by without seeing her. Dounia had never met...

Look here, at this second large room. Notice that door, its locked. By the door stands a chair, the...

Ah, Avdotya Romanovna, everything is in a muddle now; not that it was ever in very good order....

Its not your revolver, it belonged to Marfa Petrovna, whom you killed, wretch. There was nothing of...

It was a dark and stifling evening. Threatening storm clouds came over the sky about ten oclock....

It must be a nice place, thought Svidrigalov. How was it I didnt know it. I expect I look as if I...

He was dozing off; the feverish shiver had ceased, when suddenly something seemed to run over his...

A thick milky mist hung over the town. Svidrigalov walked along the slippery dirty wooden pavement...

But, however foolish I may be, Rodya, I can see for myself that you will very soon be one of the...