Crime and Punishment by Fyodor M. Dostoevsky, Fiction, Classics - Hardcover

Dostoevsky, Fyodor Mikhailovich

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9781592246311: Crime and Punishment by Fyodor M. Dostoevsky, Fiction, Classics

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ISBN 10: 1592246311 ISBN 13: 9781592246311

Publisher: Wildside Press, 2003

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CRIME AND PUNISHMENT by Fyodor Mikhailovitch Dostoevsky is an unparalleled psychological study of the criminal mind, conscience, guilt and redemption, coupled with an examination of spiritual purity and devotion. The tension-filled story of Raskolnikov - a student who plans and executes the murder of an old moneylender -- of Sonia, the pitiful young woman from the streets who cares for him, and the inevitable events that follow is considered Dostoevsky's masterpiece.

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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

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

About the Author:

Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoyevsky (1821 - 1881), sometimes transliterated Dostoevsky, was a Russian novelist, short story writer, essayist, journalist and philosopher. Dostoyevsky's literary works explore human psychology in the troubled political, social and spiritual atmosphere of 19th-century Russia and engage with a variety of philosophical and religious themes. He began writing in his 20s and his first novel, Poor Folk, was published in 1846 when he was 25. Dostoevsky's major works include Crime and Punishment (1866), The Idiot (1869), Demons (1872) and The Brothers Karamazov (1880). His oeuvre consists of 11 novels, three novellas, 17 short novels and numerous other works. Many literary critics rate him as one of the greatest psychologists in world literature. His 1864 novella Notes from Underground is considered to be one of the first works of existentialist literature.

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