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Crime and Punishment

Crime and Punishment

by Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Sidney Monas
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Raskolnikov, an impoverished student living in the St. Petersburg of the tsars, is determined to overreach his humanity and assert his untrammeled individual will. When he commits an act of murder and theft, he sets into motion a story that, for its excruciating suspense, its atmospheric vividness, and its depth 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 imaginations. Dostoevsky's drama of sin, guilt, and redemption transforms the sordid story of an old woman's murder into the nineteenth century's profoundest and most compelling philosophical novel.

Book Details

ISBN13 9780451519955
ISBN10 0451519957
Series/Work OL166894W View on OpenLibrary
Publisher Signet Classic
Pages 1
Language ENG
Created At January 30, 2025
Updated At January 30, 2025
Last OL update January 18, 2025

Subjects

Classic Literature Conscience in literature Continental european fiction (fictional works by one author) Crime Crime, fiction Crime in literature Detective and mystery stories English Translations Ficción Fiction Fiction in Spanish Fiction, psychological German language Guilt History Literary Murder Murderers Mystery Mystery fiction

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