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.
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.