Crime and Punishment

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Crime and Punishment

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ISBN: 9780192833839
author: Fyodor Dostoevsky
translator: Jessie Coulson
publishing house: Oxford Paperbacks
publication date: 1998 -3
series: Oxford World's Classics
binding: Paperback
price: GBP 6.99
number of pages: 576

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Fyodor Dostoevsky    translator: Jessie Coulson

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Crime and Punishment is the story of a murder committed on principle, of a killer who wishes by his action to set himself outside and above society. A novel of fearful tension, physical, and psychological, it is pervaded by Dostoevsky's sinister evocation of St Petersburg, yet in the life of its gloomy tenements and drink-shops provides moments of wild humour. Crime and Punishment was marked by Dostoevsky's own harrowing experiences. He had himself undergone interrogation and trial, and was condemned to death, a sentence commuted to penal servitude. In prison he was particularly impressed by one hardened murderer who seemed to have attained a spiritual equilibrium beyond good and evil: yet witnessing the misery of other convicts also engendered in Dostoevsky a belief in the Christian idea of salvation through suffering.

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