Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky (1996, Mass Market)

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Crime and Punishment (Bantam Classics) by Fyodor Dostoevsky [Mass Market Paperback]

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PublisherRandom House Publishing Group
ISBN-100553211757
ISBN-139780553211757
eBay Product ID (ePID)41982

Product Key Features

Book TitleCrime and Punishment
Number of Pages576 Pages
LanguageEnglish
Publication Year1996
TopicPsychological, Classics, Literary
FeaturesReprint
GenreFiction
AuthorFyodor Dostoevsky
FormatMass Market

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Item Height0.9 in
Item Weight8.7 Oz
Item Length6.9 in
Item Width4.2 in

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Intended AudienceTrade
LCCN00-002543
Reviews"The best [translation ofCrime and Punishment] currently available…An especially faithful re-creation…with a coiled-spring kinetic energy…Don't miss it." Washington Post Book World "This fresh, new translation…provides a more exact, idiomatic, and contemporary rendition of the novel that brings Fyodor Dostoevsky's tale achingly alive…It succeeds beautifully." San Francisco Chronicle "Reaches as close to Dostoevsky's Russian as is possible in English…The original's force and frightening immediacy is captured…The Pevear and Volokhonsky translation will become the standard English version."Chicago Tribune, "The best [translation of Crime and Punishment ] currently available…An especially faithful re-creation…with a coiled-spring kinetic energy…Don't miss it." Washington Post Book World "This fresh, new translation…provides a more exact, idiomatic, and contemporary rendition of the novel that brings Fyodor Dostoevsky's tale achingly alive…It succeeds beautifully." San Francisco Chronicle "Reaches as close to Dostoevsky's Russian as is possible in English…The original's force and frightening immediacy is captured…The Pevear and Volokhonsky translation will become the standard English version." Chicago Tribune, "The best [translation of Crime and Punishment ] currently available…An especially faithful re-creation…with a coiled-spring kinetic energy…Don't miss it." Washington Post Book World "This fresh, new translation…provides a more exact, idiomatic, and contemporary rendition of the novel that brings Fyodor Dostoevsky's tale achingly alive…It succeeds beautifully." San Francisco Chronicle "Reaches as close to Dostoevsky's Russian as is possible in English…The original's force and frightening immediacy is captured…The Pevear and Volokhonsky translation will become the standard English version." Chicago Tribune From the Hardcover edition.
Dewey Edition23
Dewey Decimal891.73/3
Edition DescriptionReprint
SynopsisNominated as one of America's best-loved novels by PBS's The Great American Read A desperate young man plans the perfect crime--the murder of a despicable pawnbroker, an old women no one loves and no one will mourn. Is it not just, he reasons, for a man of genius to commit such a crime, to transgress moral law--if it will ultimately benefit humanity? So begins one of the greatest novels ever written: a powerful psychological study, a terrifying murder mystery, a fascinating detective thriller infused with philosophical, religious and social commentary. Raskolnikov, an impoverished student living in a garret in the gloomy slums of St. Petersburg, carries out his grotesque scheme and plunges into a hell of persecution, madness and terror. Crime and Punishment takes the reader on a journey into the darkest recesses of the criminal and depraved mind, and exposes the soul of a man possessed by both good and evil . . . a man who cannot escape his own conscience., One of Time 's 100 Best Mystery and Thriller Books of All Time . Nominated as one of America's best-loved novels by PBS's The Great American Read A desperate young man plans the perfect crime-the murder of a despicable pawnbroker, an old women no one loves and no one will mourn. Is it not just, he reasons, for a man of genius to commit such a crime, to transgress moral law-if it will ultimately benefit humanity? So begins one of the greatest novels ever written- a powerful psychological study, a terrifying murder mystery, a fascinating detective thriller infused with philosophical, religious and social commentary. Raskolnikov, an impoverished student living in a garret in the gloomy slums of St. Petersburg, carries out his grotesque scheme and plunges into a hell of persecution, madness and terror. Crime and Punishment takes the reader on a journey into the darkest recesses of the criminal and depraved mind, and exposes the soul of a man possessed by both good and evil . . . a man who cannot escape his own conscience., One of Time 's 100 Best Mystery and Thriller Books of All Time - Nominated as one of America's best-loved novels by PBS's The Great American Read A desperate young man plans the perfect crime--the murder of a despicable pawnbroker, an old women no one loves and no one will mourn. Is it not just, he reasons, for a man of genius to commit such a crime, to transgress moral law--if it will ultimately benefit humanity? So begins one of the greatest novels ever written: a powerful psychological study, a terrifying murder mystery, a fascinating detective thriller infused with philosophical, religious and social commentary. Raskolnikov, an impoverished student living in a garret in the gloomy slums of St. Petersburg, carries out his grotesque scheme and plunges into a hell of persecution, madness and terror. Crime and Punishment takes the reader on a journey into the darkest recesses of the criminal and depraved mind, and exposes the soul of a man possessed by both good and evil . . . a man who cannot escape his own conscience.

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