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      <p>            <em>'Do you understand, sir, do you understand what it means when you have absolutely nowhere to turn?'</em>          </p>          <p>Rodion Romanovich Raskolnikov - an impoverished student drop-out and amateur philosopher - callously murders a pawnbroker in the slums of St Petersburg. Pursued by the law and his own ravaged conscience, Dostoyevsky's iconic anti-hero spirals into crisis as the noose tightens, and everything he thought he knew about morality and sin is corrupted by his hideous act of violence.</p>          <p>In this psychological masterpiece of good and evil, Dostoyevsky questions what murder does to the soul and whether redemption is possible. One of the great works of world literature, <em>Crime and Punishment</em> is an epic of human nature, guilt and salvation.</p>