ENGLISH LITERATURE (CBSE/UGC NET)

LITERATURE QUESTIONS

MISCELLENEOUS QUESTIONS

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
Who wrote ‘Crime and Punishment’?
A
Shelley
B
Tolstoy
C
Byron
D
Dostoyevsky
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -Crime and Punishment is a novel by Russian author Fyodor Dostoevsky. It was the first great novel of his mature period. It was first published in the literary journal The Russian Messenger in 12 monthly series in 1866.

Detailed explanation-2: -Crime and Punishment was written by the Russian author Fyodor Dostoevsky and published in 1866. It is the second of Dostoevsky’s novels, written after his return from ten years of exile in Siberia.

Detailed explanation-3: -Crime and Punishment follows the mental anguish and moral dilemmas of Rodion Raskolnikov, an impoverished ex-student in Saint Petersburg who plans to kill an unscrupulous pawnbroker, an old woman who stores money and valuable objects in her flat.

Detailed explanation-4: -Petersburg during the time that Dostoevsky was writing the novel.

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