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Crime and Punishment
by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Crime and Punishment is a novel by the Russian author Fyodor Dostoyevsky. It was first published in the literary journal The Russian Messenger in twelve monthly installments during 1866. It is the second of Dostoyevsky's full-length novels following his return from 5 years of exile in Siberia and is considered the first great novel of his "mature" period of writing. The novel is often cited as one of the supreme achievements in literature.
to me, scolding and questioning me. He scolded me a great deal; and I told him everything, and I told him that you didn’t dare to say a word in answer to me yesterday and that you didn’t recognise me. And he fell to running about again and kept hitting himself on the chest, and getting angry and running about, and when you were announced he told me to go into the next room. ‘Sit there a bit,’ he said. ‘Don’t move, whatever you may hear.’ And he set a chair there for me and locked me in. ‘Perhaps,’ he said, ‘I may call you.’ And when Nikolay’d been brought he let me out as soon as you were gone. ‘I shall send for you again and question you,’ he said.” “And did he question Nikolay while you were there?” “He got rid of me as he did of you, before he spoke to Nikolay.” The man stood still, and again suddenly bowed down, touching the ground with his finger. “Forgive me for my evil thoughts, and my slander.” “May God forgive you,” answered Raskolnikov. And as he said this, the man bowed down again, but not to the ground, turned slowly and went out of the room. “It all cuts both ways, now it all cuts both ways,” repeated
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