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Crime and Punishment (Oxford World's Classics Collection)
Fyodor Dostoevsky
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'One death, in exchange for thousands of lives - it's simple arithmetic!' A new translation of Dostoevsky's epic masterpiece, Crime and Punishment (1866). The impoverished student Raskolnikov decides to free himself from debt by killing an old moneylender, an act he sees as elevating himself above conventional morality. Like Napoleon he will assert his will and his crime will be justified by its elimination of 'vermin' for the sake of the greater good. But Raskolnikov is torn apart by fear, guilt, and a growing conscience under the influence of his love for Sonya. Meanwhile the police detective Porfiry is ... Read more
'One death, in exchange for thousands of lives - it's simple arithmetic!' A new translation of Dostoevsky's epic masterpiece, Crime and Punishment (1866). The impoverished student Raskolnikov decides to free himself from debt by killing an old moneylender, an act he sees as elevating himself above conventional morality. Like Napoleon he will assert his will and his crime will be justified by its elimination of 'vermin' for the sake of the greater good. But Raskolnikov is torn apart by fear, guilt, and a growing conscience under the influence of his love for Sonya. Meanwhile the police detective Porfiry is ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2019
Publisher
OUP Oxford
Condition
New
Number of Pages
544
Place of Publication
Oxford, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780198709718
SKU
9780198709718
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About Fyodor Dostoevsky
Nicolas Pasternak Slater has translated several works by Boris Pasternak, most recently The Family Correspondence, 1921-1960 (Hoover Press, 2010). For Oxford World's Classics, he has translated Lermontov's A Hero of Our Time (2013) and Tolstoy's The Death of Ivan Ilyich and Other Stories (2015). Sarah J. Young is Senior Lecturer in Russian at the School of Slavonic ... Read more
Reviews for Crime and Punishment (Oxford World's Classics Collection)
Superb... the Oxford University Press edition is beautifully produced and competitively priced.
Donald Rayfield, Times Literary Supplement
Donald Rayfield, Times Literary Supplement