"A detective novel, an indictment of urban oscial conditions in nineteenth-century Russia, a religious epic, a study in criminal psychopathology, and a proto-Nietzschean analysis of the 'will to power' . . . Crime and Punishment is all these things--but it is more," writes McDuff in the Introduction to this major new translation. More accurate than previous translations.
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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. 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.
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CRIME AND PUNISHMENT
By Fyodor Dostoevsky
Translated By Constance Garnett
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- PublisherPenguin Classics
- Publication date1996
- ISBN 10 0140445285
- ISBN 13 9780140445282
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages656
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