Crime and Punishment
Author: Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Will I really – I mean, really – actually take an axe, start bashing her on the head, smash her skull to pieces? . . . Will I really slip in sticky, warm blood, force the lock, steal, tremble, hide, all soaked in blood . . .axe in hand? . . . Lord, will I really?’,,A troubled young man commits the perfect crime – the murder of a vile pawnbroker whom no one will miss. Rask….Read More
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