Crime and Punishment great book, because the film would always suffer by comparison. The novel was adapted for stage by Marilyn Campbell and Curt Columbus. The play was performed at 59E59 St Theater with Writers′ Theatre in 2007 in New York City. The Irish poet, Philip McDonagh, published a stage version of the novel in 2017, which was performed in Ireland and England that year. Text Sources Criticisms Online Text Maps Crime and Punishment Crime and Punishment (Pre-reform Russian: ; post-reform ) is a novel by the Russian author Fyodor Dostoevsky. It was first published in the literary journal "The Russian Messenger" in
Crime and Human Nature of crime. Writing in "The New York Times", John Kaplan wrote in his review of "Crime and Human Nature" that "there is no doubt that this is an important book and will be the starting place for discussions of the subject for years to come." In a more mixed review of the book, Susan Jaco wrote that "The authors' point of view is buried amid so many tedious studies – many of which could just as easily be summed up in aphorisms like "the apple doesn't fall far from the tree" – that it is difficult to discern their real