Crime and Punishment: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

Crime and Punishment, credited to Fyodor Dostoyevsky, is available as a LibriVox volunteer audiobook. This guide identifies the recording, its source summary and its audio tracks.

About the work

The LibriVox catalogue summary, preserved with the recording, reads:

LibriVox recording of Crime and Punishment (version 2) by Fyodor Dostoyevsky. (Translated by Constance Garnett.) Read in English by Expatriate "Crime and Punishment" is a novel by the Russian author Fyodor Dostoyevsky. It was first published in the literary journal "The Russian Messenger" in twelve monthly installments during 1866. It was later published in a single volume. It is the second of Dostoyevsky's full-length novels following his return from ten years of exile in Siberia. Crime and Punishment is considered the first great novel of his "mature" period of writing. "Crime and Punishment" focuses on the mental anguish and moral dilemmas of Rodion Raskolnikov, an impoverished ex-student in St. Petersburg who formulates and executes a plan to kill an unscrupulous pawnbroker for her cash. Raskolnikov argues that with the pawnbroker's money he can perform good deeds to counterbalance the crime, while ridding the world of a worthless vermin. He also commits this murder to test his own hypothesis that some people are naturally capable of such things, and even have the right to do them. Several times throughout the novel, Raskolnikov justifies his actions by comparing himself with Napoleon Bonaparte, believing that murder is permissible in pursuit of a higher purpose. Much of the suspense of the novel is psychological, as the reader agonizes over Raskolnikov's efforts to evade justice for his crime. Much of it is also moral, as the question of whether or not Raskolnikov himself can find redemption as a human being leads to a surprising culmination. - Summary by Wikipedia (edited by Expatriate)

Recording facts

• Recording title: Crime and Punishment
• Author credits: Fyodor Dostoyevsky
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 51
• Listed recording duration: 19:52:38

Catalogue topics

• Russian Literature
• dostoyevsky

Opening tracks: first 24 of 51

1. 00 - Preface — 5:39
2. 01 - Part I, Chapter 01 — 19:30
3. 02 - Part I, Chapter 02a — 20:08
4. 03 - Part I, Chapter 02b — 21:25
5. 04 - Part I, Chapter 03 — 30:15
6. 05 - Part I, Chapter 04 — 29:05
7. 06 - Part I, Chapter 05 — 24:04
8. 07 - Part I, Chapter 06 — 28:35
9. 08 - Part I, Chapter 07 — 26:40
10. 09 - Part II, Chapter 01a — 17:03
11. 10 - Part II, Chapter 01b — 21:10
12. 11 - Part II, Chapter 02 — 23:32
13. 12 - Part II, Chapter 03 — 29:51
14. 13 - Part II, Chapter 04 — 22:43
15. 14 - Part II, Chapter 05 — 25:57
16. 15 - Part II, Chapter 06a — 22:42
17. 16 - Part II, Chapter 06b — 22:59
18. 17 - Part II, Chapter 07a — 20:40
19. 18 - Part II, Chapter 07b — 20:10
20. 19 - Part III, Chapter 01 — 30:34
21. 20 - Part III, Chapter 02 — 25:41
22. 21 - Part III, Chapter 03 — 29:57
23. 22 - Part III, Chapter 04 — 25:30
24. 23 - Part III, Chapter 05a — 20:17

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