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Crime and Punishment Hardcover - 1959

by Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky


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The poverty-stricken Raskolnikov, believing he is exempt from moral law, murders a man only to face the consequences not only from society but from his conscience, in this seminal story of justice, morality, and redemption from one of Russia's greatest novelists.

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Dostoevsky's drama of sin, guilt, and redemption transforms the sordid story of an old woman's murder into the nineteenth century's profoundest and most compelling philosophical novel. Raskolnikov, an impoverished student living in the St. Petersburg of the tsars, is determined to overreach his humanity and assert his untrammeled individual will. When he commits an act of murder and theft, he sets into motion a story that, for its excruciating suspense, its atmospheric vividness, and its depth of characterization and vision is almost unequaled in the literatures of the world. The best known of Dostoevsky's masterpieces, Crime and Punishment can bear any amount of rereading without losing a drop of its power over our imaginations.
Award-winning translators Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky render this elusive and wildly innovative novel with an energy, suppleness, and range of voice that do full justice to the genius of its creator.

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Early one evening, during an exceptional heat wave in the beginning of July, a young man walked out into the street from the closetlike room he rented on Stoliarny Place.

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  • Title Crime and Punishment
  • Author Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Modern Library
  • Date September 12, 1959
  • ISBN 9780394601991 / 0394601998
  • Weight 790 lbs (358.34 kg)
  • Reading level 790
  • Dewey Decimal Code FIC
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by Fyodor Dostoevsky

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