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Crime and Punishment
Forty-one days of a St Petersburg summer, from an exceptionally hot evening in July.
- Next cohort
- Next cohort 1 July
- Length
- Length 41 days
On an exceptionally hot evening early in July, a former student leaves his garret in St Petersburg to rehearse a murder. Raskolnikov has a theory that some people are allowed to step over the line, and he means to find out whether he is one of them. Crime and Punishment is what comes after the axe: fever, guilt, a family arriving at the worst moment, a long duel with an examining magistrate who knows, and an epilogue in Siberia. Dostoevsky wrote it as a magazine serial in 1866, in debt and against a deadline. Forty-one chapters, one a day, from the start of July.
Read one big book alongside other readers, a day at a time. Cohorts set off on the date above.
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Day by day
- Day 1. Part I: IFyodor Dostoevsky, 20 min
- Day 2. Part I: IIFyodor Dostoevsky, 20 min
- Day 3. Part I: IIIFyodor Dostoevsky, 20 min
- Day 4. Part I: IVFyodor Dostoevsky, 20 min
- Day 5. Part I: VFyodor Dostoevsky, 20 min
- Day 6. Part I: VIFyodor Dostoevsky, 20 min
- Day 7. Part I: VIIFyodor Dostoevsky, 20 min
- Day 8. Part II: IFyodor Dostoevsky, 20 min
- Day 9. Part II: IIFyodor Dostoevsky, 20 min
- Day 10. Part II: IIIFyodor Dostoevsky, 20 min
- Day 11. Part II: IVFyodor Dostoevsky, 20 min
- Day 12. Part II: VFyodor Dostoevsky, 20 min
- Day 13. Part II: VIFyodor Dostoevsky, 20 min
- Day 14. Part II: VIIFyodor Dostoevsky, 20 min
- Day 15. Part III: IFyodor Dostoevsky, 20 min
- Day 16. Part III: IIFyodor Dostoevsky, 20 min
- Day 17. Part III: IIIFyodor Dostoevsky, 20 min
- Day 18. Part III: IVFyodor Dostoevsky, 20 min
- Day 19. Part III: VFyodor Dostoevsky, 20 min
- Day 20. Part III: VIFyodor Dostoevsky, 20 min
- Day 21. Part IV: IFyodor Dostoevsky, 20 min
- Day 22. Part IV: IIFyodor Dostoevsky, 20 min
- Day 23. Part IV: IIIFyodor Dostoevsky, 20 min
- Day 24. Part IV: IVFyodor Dostoevsky, 20 min
- Day 25. Part IV: VFyodor Dostoevsky, 20 min
- Day 26. Part IV: VIFyodor Dostoevsky, 20 min
- Day 27. Part V: IFyodor Dostoevsky, 20 min
- Day 28. Part V: IIFyodor Dostoevsky, 20 min
- Day 29. Part V: IIIFyodor Dostoevsky, 20 min
- Day 30. Part V: IVFyodor Dostoevsky, 20 min
- Day 31. Part V: VFyodor Dostoevsky, 20 min
- Day 32. Part VI: IFyodor Dostoevsky, 20 min
- Day 33. Part VI: IIFyodor Dostoevsky, 20 min
- Day 34. Part VI: IIIFyodor Dostoevsky, 20 min
- Day 35. Part VI: IVFyodor Dostoevsky, 20 min
- Day 36. Part VI: VFyodor Dostoevsky, 20 min
- Day 37. Part VI: VIFyodor Dostoevsky, 20 min
- Day 38. Part VI: VIIFyodor Dostoevsky, 20 min
- Day 39. Part VI: VIIIFyodor Dostoevsky, 20 min
- Day 40. Epilogue: IFyodor Dostoevsky, 20 min