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Crime and Punishment

Fyodor Dostoyevsky (Author)

  • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
  • 1 Page / Published 2007-07-02
  • Category: Fiction , Classics
  • ISBN: 9780140623512
  • Language: English
  • Format: PB
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Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky was born in Moscow in 1821. His debut, the epistolary novella Poor Folk made his name. In 1849 he was arrested for involvement with the politically subversive 'Petrashevsky circle'....

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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.