Gone Rogue

Rogue Male, published in 1939, is a novel by Geoffrey Household in which the protagonist, a member of what he calls ‘Class X’, heads out to Poland with the aim of hunting a tyrant whose existence is a threat to millions. Although the novel never mentions his name, it is apparent (and Household admitted...

Crime and Punishment

In Dostoyevsky’s ‘Crime and Punishment’, the protagonist, Raskolnikov, a 23 year old former student in St Petersburg commits the murder of an old woman (a pawnbroker) and her sister. This begins a downward spiral into his own conscience. The harm he has caused is partially resultant from a need to break out of a...