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Crime and punishment

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Determined to overreach his humanity and assert his untrammelled individual will, Raskolnikov, an 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 excrutiating 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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2011, Gardners Books
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2008, Pearson Education
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2006-03-28, Project Gutenberg
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2005, Dodo Press
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1968, New American Library
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Вина і кара: повість в шести частях з епільоґом
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Edition Notes

"A Signet Classic."

"Unabridged."

Bibliography: p. 543.

Published in
New York
Series
CY 924
Translated From
Russian

Classifications

Library of Congress
PZ3.D742 C49

The Physical Object

Pagination
543 p.
Number of pages
543

Edition Identifiers

Open Library
OL50452317M
Internet Archive
bwb_O6-CEW-565
LCCN
67027378
OCLC/WorldCat
3232573

Work Identifiers

Work ID
OL166894W
LibraryThing
10072
Wikidata
Q165318

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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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