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Crime and Punishment

  • 4.20 ·
  • 91 Ratings
  • 562 Want to read
  • 49 Currently reading
  • 137 Have read

MY PENGUINBOOKS BY THE GREATS, COVERS BY YOU.Raskolnikov, a destitute and desperate former student, wanders through the slums of St Petersburg and commits a random murder without remorse or regret. He imagines himself to be a great man, a Napoleon: acting for a higher purpose beyond conventional moral law. But as he embarks on a dangerous game of cat and mouse with a suspicious police investigator, Raskolnikov is pursued by the growing voice of his conscience and finds the noose of his own guilt tightening around his neck. Only Sonya, a downtrodden prostitute, can offer the chance of redemption.

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Crime and Punishment
2017, Standard Ebooks
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Crime and punishment
2016, Arcturus
in English
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Crime and Punishment
2009-03-01, LibriVox
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Crime and Punishment
2009, Penguin Group UK
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Crime and Punishment
2006-03-28, Project Gutenberg
in English
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Schuld und Sühne
January 1, 1997, Deutscher Taschenbuch Verlag GmbH & Co.
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Crime and Punishment (Barnes and Noble Classics)
1994, Barnes and Noble Inc
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Enkle ma kai timo ria
1994, Ekdoseis Patake
in Modern Greek - 2. ekd.
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Crime and Punishment
1950, Modern Library
in English
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Crime and Punishment
1917, P F COLLIER & SON COMPANY
in English
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El crimen y el castigo
1900, Imp. y Edit. de Ramón Sopena
in Spanish
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OL24290254M
ISBN 13
9780141908359
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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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