Bibliograph

Crime and punishment, Fyodor Dostoyevsky ; translated, with an introduction, by David Magarshack ; illustrated by D. Shmarinov

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Label

Crime and punishment, Fyodor Dostoyevsky ; translated, with an introduction, by David Magarshack ; illustrated by D. Shmarinov

Language

eng

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platesillustrations

Index

no index present

Literary Form

fiction

Main title

Crime and punishment

Oclc number

9131800

Responsibility statement

Fyodor Dostoyevsky ; translated, with an introduction, by David Magarshack ; illustrated by D. Shmarinov

Series statement

Greenwich House classics library

Summary

Raskolnikov commits murder. He then must deal both with the police, and his own guilty conscience. 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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