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21%OFFFyodor Dostoyevsky - Crime and Punishment - 9780141192802 - V9780141192802
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Crime and Punishment

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Description for Crime and Punishment Paperback. Will I really slip in sticky, warm blood, force the lock, steal, tremble, hide, all soaked in blood.. axe in hand?.. Lord, will I really? This is the translation of author's 'psychological record of a crime' which gives his dark masterpiece of murder and pursuit a renewed vitality, expressing its jagged and fevered atmosphere. Translator(s): Ready, Oliver. Num Pages: 752 pages. BIC Classification: FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 134 x 179 x 33. Weight in Grams: 410.

'A truly great translation . . . This English version really is better' - A. N. Wilson, The Spectator

TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT BOOKS OF THE YEAR 2014

This acclaimed new translation of Dostoyevsky's 'psychological record of a crime' gives his dark masterpiece of murder and pursuit a renewed vitality, expressing its jagged, staccato urgency and fevered atmosphere as never before. Raskolnikov, a destitute and desperate former student, wanders alone through the slums of St. Petersburg, deliriously imagining himself above society's laws. But when he commits a random murder, only suffering ensues. Embarking on a dangerous game of cat ... Read more

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Product Details

Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd
Number of pages
752
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Condition
New
Number of Pages
752
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780141192802
SKU
V9780141192802
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About Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoyevsky was born in Moscow in 1821. In 1849 he was arrested for involvement with the politically subversive 'Petrashevsky circle' and until 1854 he lived in a convict prison in Omsk, Siberia. After the death of his first wife, Maria, in 1864, Dostoyevsky completed Notes from Underground and began work towards Crime and Punishment (1866). The major ... Read more

Reviews for Crime and Punishment
A superb translation
Jennifer Szalai
The New York Times
A truly great translation ... Sometimes new translations of old favourites are surplus to our requirements. Sometimes, though, a new translation really makes us see a favourite masterpiece afresh. And this English version of Crime and Punishment really is better ... Crime and Punishment, as well as being ... Read more

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