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Fyodor Dostoyevsky - Crime and Punishment (Wordsworth Classics) - 9781840224306 - V9781840224306
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Crime and Punishment (Wordsworth Classics)

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Description for Crime and Punishment (Wordsworth Classics) Paperback. A novel built out of a series of dramatic scenes that illuminate eternal conflicts at the heart of human existence: most especially our desire for self-expression and self-fulfilment, as against the constraints of morality and human laws. Translator(s): Garnett, Constance. Series Editor(s): Carabine, Dr. Keith. Series: Wordsworth Classics. Num Pages: 528 pages, maps. BIC Classification: FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 128 x 30. Weight in Grams: 332.

Translated by Constance Garnett with an Introduction and Notes by Dr Keith Carabine, University of Kent at Canterbury.

Crime and Punishment is one of the greatest and most readable novels ever written. From the beginning we are locked into the frenzied consciousness of Raskolnikov who, against his better instincts, is inexorably drawn to commit a brutal double murder.

From that moment on, we share his conflicting feelings of self-loathing and pride, of contempt for and need of others, and of terrible despair and hope of redemption: and, in a remarkable transformation of the detective novel, we follow his agonised efforts ... Read more

The result is a tragic novel built out of a series of supremely dramatic scenes that illuminate the eternal conflicts at the heart of human existence: most especially our desire for self-expression and self-fulfilment, as against the constraints of morality and human laws; and our agonised awareness of the world's harsh injustices and of our own mortality, as against the mysteries of divine justice and immortality.

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Product Details

Publisher
Wordsworth Editions
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2000
Series
Wordsworth Classics
Condition
New
Number of Pages
528
Place of Publication
Herts, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781840224306
SKU
V9781840224306
Shipping Time
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Ref
99-50

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