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Crime and Punishment

Fyodor Dostoevsky · 1866 · 202,565 words
10:14:28
at 375 wpm · the whole book
The audiobook runs about twenty-one hours.

Sonia Marmeladov is eighteen and has the yellow ticket of a prostitute. Her room on the canal is low and lopsided, with one corner the candle cannot reach, and on the chest of drawers lies a New Testament from her friend Lizaveta, who is dead by an axe with her sister the pawnbroker. Her father is dead under a carriage, and her stepmother's three children are hungry. She has a visitor named Raskolnikov, who wants her to read him the Gospel passage where Lazarus is raised, and who knows exactly how Lizaveta died.

Crime and Punishment is the story of a man who has done something on principle and cannot live alone with it. Dostoevsky sets a young man's theory against a girl's faith and lets the reader sit in that room with them. It knows that no one survives outside other people, and that being needed can be worse than being caught.

40 chapters · begin at the beginning
Chapter 19:49begin ▸
·Chapter 221:39sealed
·Chapter 315:59sealed
·Chapter 415:18sealed
·Chapter 512:31sealed
·Chapter 614:49sealed
·Chapter 714:35sealed
·Chapter 820:24sealed
·Chapter 912:32sealed
·Chapter 1016:18sealed
·Chapter 1112:26sealed
·Chapter 1212:14sealed
·Chapter 1323:07sealed
·Chapter 1421:08sealed
·Chapter 1515:41sealed
·Chapter 1613:21sealed
·Chapter 1715:33sealed
·Chapter 1813:15sealed
·Chapter 1921:31sealed
·Chapter 2012:54sealed
·Chapter 2115:02sealed
·Chapter 2213:49sealed
·Chapter 239:15sealed
·Chapter 2418:55sealed
·Chapter 2521:10sealed
·Chapter 268:32sealed
·Chapter 2718:31sealed
·Chapter 2814:32sealed
·Chapter 2916:49sealed
·Chapter 3020:04sealed
·Chapter 3115:37sealed
·Chapter 3211:32sealed
·Chapter 3316:46sealed
·Chapter 3411:29sealed
·Chapter 3513:03sealed
·Chapter 3616:57sealed
·Chapter 3716:07sealed
·Chapter 3810:52sealed
·Chapter 3911:55sealed
·Epilogue18:26sealed

How long does it take to read Crime and Punishment?

Crime and Punishment is 202,565 words. At an average adult reading pace of 300 words a minute that is about 11 hr 15 min, or roughly 8 hr 26 min if you read quickly and 16 hr 53 min at a more deliberate 200 words a minute.

That count is measured from the complete public-domain text rather than estimated from a page count, so you can compare all the books side by side.

Text: Crime and Punishment, Fyodor Dostoevsky (1866), public domain, via Project Gutenberg. · You read at the book's authored pace; nothing here is stored anywhere but this browser. · About Midsentence