Crime and Punishment

Crime and Punishment Clas... Presentation Activities

Primary Sources:

  • Music to listen to while you read: Click here

  • Free, full online text of this book: Click here

  • Gutenberg Project e-book options: Click here

  • Quotes compiled from this book: Click here

  • Quotes compiled from this author: Click here

  • Quotes about this book/author: Click here

  • Audiobook recording on Youtube: Click Here

Crime and Punishment Reading Guide Packet

Secondary Sources:

  • Why you should read C & P (TED Ed): Link

  • Sparknotes: Click Here

  • Characters in C & P: Click here

  • Context of Dostoevsky: Click here

  • The World of C & P: Link

  • Biography Documentary on Dostoevsky: Click here

  • How Dostoevsky influenced famous artist Edvard Munch: Link

  • "Pray for Chekhov: Or What Russian Literature can teach conservatives," a lecture by Dr. Gary Morson: Link

  • David Foster Wallace essay on Joseph Frank's magisterial biography of Dostoevsky from his collection of essays, Consider the Lobster: Click here

  • Rowan Williams on Dostoevsky: Link

  • BBC "In Our Time" Podcast with Stanford professor: link

  • Irwine Weil, professor at Northwestern University, on C&P: Link

  • Irwine Weil (see above) on Dostoevsky: Link

  • Dostoevsky and Nietzsche lecture by Stanford professor of philosophy: Link

  • Dr. Michael Katz, professor at Middlebury College, lectures on Crime and Punishment: Link

  • Another lecture by Dr. Katz (see above): Link

  • Interesting, intimate interview with an unnamed man about Crime and Punishment: Link

  • 1980 Movie Adaptation of C&P, starring John Hurt:

  • Crime and Punishment really about Regicide? Link

  • Tolstoy or Dostoevsky? 8 experts weigh in: Link

  • Thug Notes on Notes from the Underground: Click here

Character Map from Novel

Map of St. Petersburg, Russia, circa 1883 (20 years after novel, Crime & Punishment)