Crime and Punishment

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Signet Classic, 1999 - Fiction - 539 pages
Determined to overreach his humanity and assert his untrammelled individual will, Raskolnikov, and impoverished student living in the St. Petersburg of the Tsars, commits an act of murder and theft and sets into motion a story which, for its excruciating suspense, its atmospheric vividness, and its profundity 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 imagination.

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About the author (1999)

Fyodor Dostoyevsky (1821–1881), one of nineteenth-century Russia’s greatest novelists, spent four years in a convict prison in Siberia, after which he was obliged to enlist in the army. In later years his penchant for gambling sent him deeply into debt. Most of his important works were written after 1864, including Notes from Underground, Crime and Punishment, The Idiot, and The Brothers Karamazov, all available from Penguin Classics.

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TitleCrime and Punishment
Signet Classics Series
AuthorFyodor Dostoyevsky
Translated bySidney Monas
ContributorSidney Monas
Editionrevised
PublisherSignet Classic, 1999
ISBN0451527232, 9780451527233
Length539 pages
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Fiction / City Life
Fiction / Classics
Fiction / General
Fiction / Literary
Literary Criticism / Russian & Soviet
  
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