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Crime and Punishment

โœ Scribed by Fyodor Dostoevsky; Oliver Ready

Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd
Year
2013;2014
Tongue
English
Weight
446 KB
Edition
New edition /
Category
Fiction

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โœฆ Synopsis

'A truly great translation . . . This English version really is better' - A. N. Wilson,The Spectator
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TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT BOOKS OF THE YEAR 2014

This acclaimed new translation of Dostoyevsky's 'psychological record of a crime' gives his dark masterpiece of murder and pursuit a renewed vitality, expressing its jagged, staccato urgency and fevered atmosphere as never before. Raskolnikov, a destitute and desperate former student, wanders alone through the slums of St. Petersburg, deliriously imagining himself above society's laws. But when he commits a random murder, only suffering ensues. Embarking on a dangerous game of cat and mouse with a suspicious police investigator, Raskolnikov finds the noose of his own guilt tightening around his neck. Only Sonya, a downtrodden prostitute, can offer the chance of redemption.

Fyodor Dostoevsky (1821-1881) was born in Moscow and made his name in 1846 with the novella...

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