Crime and Punishment (Penguin Classics)

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Crime and Punishment (Penguin Classics)

  • 4.20 ·
  • 91 Ratings
  • 544 Want to read
  • 48 Currently reading
  • 137 Have read

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Crime and Punishment (Russian: Преступлéние и наказáние, tr. Prestupleniye i nakazaniye; IPA: [prʲɪstʊˈplʲenʲə ɪ nəkɐˈzanʲə]) is a novel by the Russian author Fyodor Dostoyevsky. It was first published in the literary journal The Russian Messenger in twelve monthly installments during 1866.[1] It was later published in a single volume. It is the second of Dostoyevsky's full-length novels following his return from ten years of exile in Siberia. Crime and Punishment is considered the first great novel of his "mature" period of writing.[2]

Crime and Punishment focuses on the mental anguish and moral dilemmas of Rodion Raskolnikov, an impoverished ex-student in St. Petersburg who formulates and executes a plan to kill an unscrupulous pawnbroker for her cash. Raskolnikov argues that with the pawnbroker's money he can perform good deeds to counterbalance the crime, while ridding the world of a worthless vermin. He also commits this murder to test his own hypothesis that some people are naturally capable of such things, and even have the right to do them. Several times throughout the novel, Raskolnikov justifies his actions by comparing himself with Napoleon Bonaparte, believing that murder is permissible in pursuit of a higher purpose.



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Penguin Classics
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English
Pages
720

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Crime and punishment
2016, Arcturus
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Crime and Punishment
2009-03-01, LibriVox
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Crime and Punishment
2006-03-28, Project Gutenberg
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Crime and Punishment (Penguin Classics)
2003, Penguin Classics
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Schuld und Sühne
January 1, 1997, Deutscher Taschenbuch Verlag GmbH & Co.
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Enkle ma kai timo ria
1994, Ekdoseis Patake
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Crime and Punishment (Barnes and Noble Classics)
1994, Barnes and Noble Inc
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Crime and Punishment
1950, Modern Library
in English
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Crime and Punishment
1917, P F COLLIER & SON COMPANY
in English
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El crimen y el castigo
1900, Imp. y Edit. de Ramón Sopena
in Spanish
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"At the beginning of July, during a spell of exceptionally hot weather, towards evening, a certain young man came down on to the street from the little room he rented from some tenants in S- Lane and slowly, almost hesitantly, set off towards K-n Bridge."

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OL7355481M
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ISBN 13
9780140449136
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10072
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181309

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