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Crime and Punishmentis anovelby the Russian authorFyodor Dostoyevsky It was first published in theliterary journalThe Russian Messengerin twelve monthly installments during 1866It was later published in a single volume It is the second of Dostoevskys fulllength novels following his return from ten years ofexile in SiberiaCrime and Punishmentis considered the first great novel of his mature period of writing The novel is often cited as one of the supreme achievements inworld literature