Crime and Punishment(Book Jacket Status: Jacketed) Dostoevskys drama of sin, guilt, and redemption transforms the sordid story of an old womans murder into the nineteenth centurys profoundest and most compelling philosophical novel. Raskolnikov, an impoverished student living in the St. Petersburg of the tsars, is determined to overreach his humanity and assert his untrammeled individual will. When he commits an act of murder and theft, he sets into motion a story that,