This Prestwick House Literary Touchstone Edition includes the full, unabridged text of the novel plus a glossary and reader’s notes to help the modern reader understand the turbulent and dynamic world of Dostoevsky’s St. Petersburg.Shortly after returning from a decade-long exile in Siberia, Dostoevsky fled creditors only to end up living in destitution in Austria. Staying in a hotel he couldn’t afford, with barely enough money for tea, he composed this masterfully modern examination of a murderer's mind.
