Crime and Punishment, Fyodor Dostoevsky
Crime and Punishment, Fyodor Dostoevsky
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Crime and Punishment

Author: Fyodor Dostoevsky

Narrator: Unknown

Unabridged: 29 hr 18 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Mika

Published: 05/30/2026


Synopsis

This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. What happens when a man believes he has stepped beyond good and evil—only to discover that his own conscience is waiting in the dark?

In Crime and Punishment, Fyodor Dostoevsky enters the fevered mind of Rodion Raskolnikov, a poor former student in St. Petersburg who commits a terrible act under the influence of a dangerous idea: that extraordinary people may be permitted to violate ordinary moral law. Through psychological intensity, spiritual conflict, and philosophical depth, Dostoevsky explores guilt, pride, suffering, redemption, and the terrifying cost of intellectual arrogance.

The novel follows Raskolnikov’s descent into paranoia after the crime, his tense encounters with the brilliant investigator Porfiry Petrovich, and his complex relationship with Sonya, whose humility and faith challenge the darkness consuming him. Around them, Dostoevsky builds a world of poverty, desperation, moral decay, and unexpected grace.

First published in 1866, Crime and Punishment remains one of the most influential novels ever written. Its questions are still disturbingly modern: can reason justify cruelty, can guilt be escaped, and can a broken soul be restored?

This AI-narrated audiobook offers a clear, polished, and immersive listening experience, guiding the listener through Dostoevsky’s dense psychological drama, moral tension, and unforgettable atmosphere with precision and depth.

Enter the streets of St. Petersburg, follow a mind at war with itself, and experience a masterpiece of guilt, punishment, and redemption. Begin listening to Crime and Punishment today.

About Fyodor Dostoevsky

Fyodor Dostoevsky (1821-1881), born in Moscow, lived much of his childhood distanced from his frail mother and officious father. During these formative years, he formed a close bond with his elder brother Mikhail. When they were teenagers, however, Fyodor and Mikhail were enrolled in separate boarding schools, Fyodor matriculating at an engineering school in St. Petersburg. Even as he was studying the trade of government, Dostoevsky was honing his skills as a writer, inking drafts of what would become his first novel-Poor Folk. In 1846, it was published to warm critical response. Something of a literary figure at the age of twenty-five, Dostoevsky began attending the discussion group that would result in his imprisonment. His sentence was commuted to four years in prison and four years of army service. His prison experiences, as well as his life after prison among the urban poor of Russia, provided a vivid backdrop for much of his later work. Released from his imprisonment and service by 1858, he began a fourteen-year period of furious writing, in which he published many significant texts, including The House of the Dead, Notes from the Underground, Crime and Punishment, The Idiot, and Devils. During this period, Dostoevsky's life was in upheaval, as he lost both his first wife and his brother. On February 15, 1867, he married his stenographer Anna Grigorevna Snitkina, who managed his affairs until his death. Two months before he died, Dostoevsky completed the epilogue to The Brothers Karamazov, which was published in serial form in the Russian Messenger.


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