THE SINNER AND THE SAINT

THE SINNER AND THE SAINT is the deeply researched and immersive tale of how Dostoevsky came to write this great murder storyand why it changed the world. As a young man, Dostoevsky was a celebrated writer, but his involvement with the radical politics of his day condemned him to a long Siberian exile. There, he spent years studying the criminals that were his companions. Upon his return to St . Petersburg in the 1860s, he fought his way through gambling addiction, debilitating debt, epilepsy, the deaths of those closest to him, and ...[Read more]