Reading List: Crime and Punishment

How to start: Google “What’s so great about Crime and Punishment” and you’ll come across videos like this one from TED-Ed:

Three quotations:

“Meanwhile the room had become so full of people that you couldn’t have dropped a pin.” (p 144)

“It’s nothing but misfortunes now,” she added suddenly with that peculiarly sedate are which children try hard to assume when they want to speak like grown-up people.” (p 150)

“‘She has certainly gone mad!’ He said to Raskolnikov, as they went out into the street. ‘I didn’t want to frighten Sofya Semyonovna, so I said ‘it seemed like it,’ but there isn’t a doubt of it. They say that in consumption the tubercles sometimes occur in the brain; it’s a pity I know nothing of medicine. I did try to persuade her, but she wouldn’t listen.”
“Did you talk to her about the tubercles?”
“Not precisely of the tubercles. Besides, she wouldn’t have understood! But what I say is, that if you convince a person logically that he has nothing to cry about, he’ll stop crying. That’s clear. Is it your conviction that he won’t?”
“Life would be too easy if it were so,” answered Raskolnikov.” (p 333)