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Crime and punishment

Title

Crime and punishment / Fyodor Dostoyevsky ; translated with an introduction by David Magarshack.

Author

Dostoyevsky, Fyodor, 1821-1881

Publication

Harmondsworth, Middlesex, England ; New York, NY : Penguin Books, [1966 printing]
©1951

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Additional Authors

Magarshack, David

Description

558 pages; 18 cm

Summary

Supreme masterpiece recounts in feverish, compelling tones the story of Raskolnikov, an impoverished student tormented by his own nihilism, and the struggle between good and evil. Raskolnikov, a destitute and desperate former student, wanders through the slums of St Petersburg and commits a random murder without remorse or regret. He imagines himself to be a great man, a Napoleon: acting for a higher purpose beyond conventional moral law. But as he embarks on a dangerous game of cat and mouse with a suspicious police investigator, Raskolnikov is pursued by the growing voice of his conscience and finds the noose of his own guilt tightening around his neck. Only Sonya, a downtrodden sex worker, can offer the chance of redemption.

Series Statement

Penguin classics ; L23

Uniform Title

Prestuplenie i nakazanie. English
Penguin classics ; L23.

Alternative Title

Prestuplenie i nakazanie.

Subject

Genre/Form

Detective and mystery stories.
Fictional Work
Psychological fiction
Detective and mystery fiction
Novels
Fiction
Psychological fiction.
Novels.
Russian fiction.
Romans.

ISBN

0140440232
9780140440232

OCLC

ocm04736293
4736293
SCSB-164983

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library