Name: Crime and Punishment By Fyodor Dostoevsky
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Crime And Punishment Summary

Crime And Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky

Discover Dostoevsky's masterpiece.

'The old woman was merely a sickness . . .it wasn't a human being I killed, it was a principle!'

A troubled young man commits the perfect crime - the murder of a vile pawnbroker whom no one will miss. Raskolnikov is desperate for money, but convinces himself that his motive for the murder is to benefit mankind. So begins one of the greatest novels ever written, a journey into the criminal mind, a police thriller, and a philosophical meditation on morality and redemption.

TRANSLATED BY RICHARD PEVEAR & LARISSA VOLOKHONSKY

Crime And Punishment Reviews

Dostoevsky makes Martin Amis seem as if he was writing 130 years ago and that Dostoevsky is writing now. Read all of Dostoevsky. These books are for now and they matter, because it's up to us to call a halt to our TV producers, politicians, gutless artists, poets and writers: these "teenagers of all ages" who are propelling us towards a consumerist hell of disposability over quality -- Billy Childish
Dostoevsky's finest masterpiece * John Bayley *
Donne, Herbert, Shakespeare, Jane Austen, George Eliot, Dostoevsky, Henry James - these are the great psychologists - far greater than Freud or Klein or Jung -- Sally Vickers
The best translation of Crime and Punishment currently available... An especially faithful re-creation...with a coiled-spring kinetic energy... Don't miss it * Washington Post *
Crime and Punishment...is about a big subject - the meaning of life - yet it is gritty, gripping and it's depiction of city life gives it a modern, timeless feel -- Leila Aboulela, author of The Translator

About Fyodor Dostoevsky

Fyodor Dostoevsky was born in Moscow on 11th November 1821. He had six siblings and his mother died in 1837 and his father in 1839. He graduated from the St Petersburg Academy of Military Engineering in 1846 but decided to change careers and become a writer. His first book, Poor Folk, did very well but on 23rd April 1849 he was arrested for subversion and sentenced to death. After a mock-execution his sentence was commuted to hard labour in Siberia where he developed epilepsy.He was released in 1854. His 1860 book, The House of the Dead was based on these experiences. In 1857 he married Maria Dmitrievna Isaeva. After his release he adopted more conservative and traditional values and rejected his previous socialist position. In the following years he spent a lot of time abroad, struggled with an addiction to gambling and fell deeply in debt. His wife died in 1864 and he married Anna Grigoryeva Snitkina. In the following years he published his most enduring and successful books, includingCrime and Punishment (1865). He died on 9th February 1881.

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GOR001327107

ISBN 13

9780099981909

ISBN 10

0099981904

Title

Crime And Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky

Author

Fyodor Dostoevsky

Condition

Used - Very Good

Binding type

Paperback

Publisher

Vintage Publishing

Year published

1993-05-20

Number of pages

592

Prizes

Runner-up for The BBC Big Read Top 100 2003 Short-listed for BBC Big Read Top 100 2003

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Crime And Punishment Fyodor Dostoevsky

Crime And Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky

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Crime And Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky

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