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Crime and Punishment
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
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Description for Crime and Punishment
Hardback. Crime 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. Translated by Constance Garnett, with an Afterword by Oliver Francis. Translator(s): Garnett, Constance. Series: Macmillan Collector's Library. Num Pages: 736 pages. BIC Classification: 1DVUA; 3JH; FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 107 x 160 x 34. Weight in Grams: 372.
A towering classic of Russian literature, Fyodor Dostoevsky's Crime and Punishment is a compelling story of a brutal double murder and its aftermath. An impoverished ex-student, Rodion Raskolnikov, kills a pawnbroker and her sister, apparently for financial gain. But as he encounters friends and family, strangers and adversaries, Raskolnikov is compelled to face the true forces that have led him to murder. His struggle with himself and those around him becomes a battle of the individual against society, radicalism against tradition, and ultimately the will of man against the mysteries of divine providence. A sensation in ... Read more
A towering classic of Russian literature, Fyodor Dostoevsky's Crime and Punishment is a compelling story of a brutal double murder and its aftermath. An impoverished ex-student, Rodion Raskolnikov, kills a pawnbroker and her sister, apparently for financial gain. But as he encounters friends and family, strangers and adversaries, Raskolnikov is compelled to face the true forces that have led him to murder. His struggle with himself and those around him becomes a battle of the individual against society, radicalism against tradition, and ultimately the will of man against the mysteries of divine providence. A sensation in ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Pan Macmillan
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Series
Macmillan Collector's Library
Condition
New
Number of Pages
736
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781509827749
SKU
V9781509827749
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About Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Fyodor Dostoevsky was born in Moscow in 1821 and studied in St Petersburg. His first work of fiction was the epistolary novel Poor Folk (1846), which met with a generally favourable response, but his subsequent works in the same period were less enthusiastically received. In 1849 Dostoevsky was arrested as a member of the socialist Petrashevsky circle, and suffered four ... Read more
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