Crime and Punishment
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Determined to overreach his humanity and assert his untrammeled individual will, Raskolnikov, an impoverished student living in the St. Petersburg of the Tsars, commits an act of murder and theft and sets into motion a story which, for its excruciating suspense, its atmospheric vividness, and its profundity of characterization and vision, is almost unequaled in the literatures of the world. The best known of Fyodor Dostoevsky’s masterpieces, Crime and Punishment can bear any amount of rereading without losing a drop of its power over our imagination.
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Crime and Punishment
Mired in poverty, the student Raskolnikov nevertheless thinks well of himself. Of his pawnbroker he takes a different view, and in deciding to do away with her he sets in motion his own tragic downfall. Fyodor Dostoyevsky’s penetrating novel of an intellectual whose moral compass goes haywire, and the detective who hunts him down for his terrible crime, is a stunning psychological portrait, a thriller, and a profound meditation on guilt and retribution. Award-winning translators Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky render Crime and Punishment with an energy, suppleness, and range of voice that do full justice to the genius of its creator.
Dostoyevsky’s life was as dark and dramatic as the great novels he wrote. A short first novel in 1846, Poor Folk, brought him instant success, but his writing career ended with his arrest for alleged subversion against Tsar Nicholas I in 1849. In prison he was given the “silent treatment” for eight months before he was led in front a firing squad. Dressed in a death shroud, he faced an open grave and awaited execution, when suddenly, an order arrived commuting his sentence. He then spent four years at hard labor in a Siberian prison, where he began to suffer from epilepsy, and he returned to St. Petersburg only a full ten years after he had left in chains. His prison experiences coupled with his conversion to a profoundly religious philosophy formed the basis for his great novels.
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| Weight | 1.45 lbs |
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| Dimensions | 8.3 × 5.31 × 1.27 in |
| Authors | Fyodor Dostoevsky |
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| ISBN | 9780679420293 |
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| Pages | 608 |
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