Fyodor Dostoevsky

Light Hardcover (1 lb or less)

New York

.0000000000Crime and Punishment is the story of a brutal double murder and its aftermath. Raskolnikov, a poor student, kills a pawnbroker and her sister, and then has to face up to the moral consequences of his actions. The novel is compelling and rewarding, full of meaning and symbolism, and raises profound questions about the individual and society, and the nature of free will.Translated by Constance Garnett, with an Afterword by Oliver Francis.

Crime and Punishment

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Jessie Coulson

Paperback (1 to 2 lbs)

Texas

Crime and Punishment is the story of a murder committed on principle, of a killer who wishes by his action to set himself outside and above society. A novel of fearful tension, physical, and psychological, it is pervaded by Dostoevsky's sinister evocation of St Petersburg, yet in the life ofits gloomy tenements and drink-shops provides moments of wild humour.Crime and Punishment was marked by Dostoevsky's own harrowing experiences. He had himself undergone interrogation and trial, and was condemned to death, a sentence commuted to penal servitude. In prison he was particularly impressed by one hardened murderer who seemed to have attained a spiritualequilibrium beyond good and evil: yet witnessing the misery of other convicts also engendered in Dostoevsky a belief in the Christian idea of salvation through suffering.

Category - Fiction / Classics

Format - Hardcover

Condition - Like New

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Est. Publication Date - Feb 2004