Crime and Punishment

Douban
Crime and Punishment

Login or register to review or add this item to your collection.

ISBN: 9780553211757
author: Fyodor Dostoevsky
publishing house: Bantam USA
publication date: 1920 -1
binding: Mass Market Paperback
price: GBP 6.99
number of pages: 472

/ 10

1 ratings

No enough ratings
Borrow or Buy

Fyodor Dostoevsky   

overview

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.

other editions
comments
reviews
notes