Question

Who wrote "Crime and Punishment"? a. Tolstoy b. Dostoyevsky c. Shakespeare

Answer 1

The correct answer is: B: „Crime and Punishment“ is a novel written by Fyodor M. Dostoyevsky. Dostoyevsky was the Russian novelist, essayist, journalist and philosopher, and one of the greatest writers in world literature. He lived in 19th century, and was one of the most important writers of Realism. Crime and Punishment is one of his best and most popular works – it is a book about young student Rodeon Raskolnikov, who decides to kill an old and evil woman, so he could take her money and use it for a higher purpose. But, when he does that, he deals with the mental anguish and moral dilemmas, which makes him to confess his crime.