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Crime and Punishment (Everyman's Library)

by Fyodor M. Dostoevsky

ISBN13: 9780679420293
ISBN10: 0679420290
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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.

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 char?acterization and vision is almost unequaled in the literatures of the world. The best known of Dosto?evsky’s masterpieces, Crime and Punishment can bear any amount of rereading without losing a drop of its power over our imaginations.

Award-winning translators Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky render this elusive and wildly innovative novel with an energy, suppleness, and range of voice that do full justice to the genius of its creator.

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“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

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“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

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“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

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Determined to overreach his humanity and assert his untrammelled individual will, Raskolnikov, and 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 excruciating 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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ISBN:: 9780679420293
Translator:: Volohonsky, Larissa
Translator:: Pevear, Richard
Translator:: Volohonsky, Larissa
Author:: Dostoevsky, Fyodor M.
Author:: Dostoyevsky, Fyodor
Author:: Fyodor Dostoevsky
Author:: Pevear, Richard
Publisher:: Everyman's Library
Location:: New York :
Subject:: Literary
Subject:: Classics
Subject:: Continental european fiction (fictional works
Subject:: Detective and mystery stories
Subject:: Mystery fiction
Subject:: Saint petersburg (russia)
Edition Description:: Alfred A. Knopf, Inc.
Series:: Everyman's Library Classics & Contemporary Classics
Series Volume:: no. 21
Publication Date:: May 1993
Binding:: Hardcover
Language:: English
Illustrations:: Yes
Pages:: 608
Dimensions:: 8.30x5.29x1.27 in. 1.41 lbs.

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