Crime and Punishment

Author:: Fyodor M. Dostoevsky
Format:: Hardcover

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Short description

A desperate young man plans the perfect crime -- the murder of a despicable pawnbroker, an old women no one loves and no one will mourn. Is it not just, he reasons, for a man of genius to commit such a crime, to transgress moral law -- if it will ultimately benefit humanity? So begins one of the greatest novels ever written: a powerful psychological study, a terrifying murder mystery, a fascinating detective thriller infused with philosophical, religious and social commentary. Raskolnikov, an impoverished student living in a garret in the gloomy slums of St. Petersburg, carries out his grotesque scheme and plunges into a hell of persecution, madness and terror. "Crime And Punishment" takes the reader on a journey into the darkest recesses of the criminal and depraved mind, and exposes the soul of a man possessed by both good and evil ... a man who cannot escape his own conscience.

Long description

Crime and Punishment (1866) 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 great physical and psychological tension, pervaded by Dostoevsky's sinister evocation of St Petersburg, it also has moments of wild humour. Dostoevsky's own harrowing experiences mark the novel. He had himself undergone interrogation and trial, and was condemned to death, a sentence commuted at the last moment to penal servitude. In prison he was particularly impressed by one hardened murderer who seemed to have attained a spiritual equilibrium 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.

Product details

Translator:: Constance Garnett
Contributor:: Joseph Frank
Publisher:: Perfection Learning
ISBN:: 9780812415377
Publication date:: October 1996
Length:: 168mm
Width:: 109mm
Thickness:: 28mm
Weight:: 318g

Review

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 Book World
This fresh, new translation... provides a more exact, idiomatic, and contemporary rendition of the novel that brings Fyodor Dostoevsky's tale achingly alive... It succeeds beautifully. - San Francisco Chronicle
Reaches as close to Dostoevsky's Russian as is possible in English... The original's force and frightening immediacy is captured... The Pevear and Volokhonsky translation will become the standard English version. - Chicago Tribune

From the Hardcover edition.