Used vintage very good crime and punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

FYODOR DOSTOYEVSKY

Crime and

Punishment

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Crime and Punishment is the story of a murder and its

consequences, a tale of suspense without equal. On a

more profound level, it is an unsurpassed study of

pride and rebellion, guilt and redemption, far-reaching

in its implications. Its setting is a Russia in the midst

of troubled transition to the modern age; its driven

young hero, Raskolnikov, stands as a timeless proto-

type of alienated youth; its unforgettable gallery of

characters -ranging from police inspector to prosti-

tute, from incorrigible sinner to unbearable prig -

comes to vivid being in an atmosphere of life charged

with living, in a world where thought and action are

fused by intense emotion. Here, in a brilliant new trans-

lation by the noted scholar and literary critic Sidney

Monas, is one of the greatest novels ever written.

Crime and Punishment is the supreme expression of

an author who "explored pathological states and the

psychology of high tension, the realm of 'obsession'

and 'possession,' because it was there one could most

clearly and dramatically see the human consequences

of an idea carried ruthlessly through to its logical con-

clusion.

.. For Dostoyevsky, an idea always has skin

around it, and a human personality.

Translated and with an Afterward hi cia.