Crime and Punishment

Constance Garnett's translation, 1914. 41 parts, about 204,314 words, 15 hours of reading. Source edition.

Passages the guide marks

I didn't kill a human being, I killed a principle.
Part III · Read it in Part III, Chapter VI
An extraordinary man has the right, that is, not an official right, but an inner right, to decide in his own conscience to overstep certain obstacles.
Part III, chapter 5 · Read it in Part III, Chapter V
Go at once, this very minute, stand at the crossroads, bow down, first kiss the earth which you have defiled, and then bow down to all the world and say aloud to all men, I am a murderer.
Part V, chapter 4 · Read it in Part V, Chapter IV
It was not the ideas, it was not the theory that killed the old woman. I killed myself, and not the old woman.
Part VI · Read it in Part VI, Chapter II

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Public domain in the United States; the Standard Ebooks edition is released under CC0. Translated by Constance Garnett. It is not the edition the programs assign; the guide names that one, and the buy links there point at it.

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