This novel is written by Fyodor Dostoyevsky.
I found many different versions.
Crime and Punishment (1866) is the story of a murder committed on principle, of a killer who wishes by his action to set himself outside and above society. A novel of great physical and psychological tension, pervaded by Dostoyevsky's sinister evocation of St Petersburg, it also has moments of wild humour. Dostoyevsky's own harrowing experiences mark the novel. He had himself undergone interrogation and trial, and was condemned to death, a sentence commuted at the last moment to penal servitude. In prison he particularly impressed by one hardened murderer who seemed to have attained a spiritual equilibrium beyond good and evil: yet witnessing the misery of other convicts also engendered in Dostoyevsky a belief in the Christian ideal of salvation through suffering.
From: http://www.books.com.tw/exep/prod/booksfile.php?item=F010248514
others:
http://www.books.com.tw/exep/prod/booksfile.php?item=F011317970
http://www.books.com.tw/exep/prod/booksfile.php?item=F010006413
Chinses edidtion:
http://www.books.com.tw/exep/prod/booksfile.php?item=0010351407
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I didn't realize that D had been convicted and sentenced himself!
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