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Mar 28, 2006 · Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky. Read now or download (free!) Similar Books. Readers also downloaded… In Best Books Ever Listings. In Crime Fiction. In Harvard Classics. About this eBook. Free kindle book and epub digitized and proofread by volunteers.
Crime and Punishment follows the mental anguish and moral dilemmas of Rodion Raskolnikov, an impoverished ex-student in Saint Petersburg who plans to kill an unscrupulous pawnbroker, an old woman who stores money and valuable objects in her flat.
Crime and Punishment. Fyodor Dostoevsky, David McDuff (Translator), Joseph Frank (Introduction) 4.27. 919,458 ratings37,851 reviews. Raskolnikov, a destitute and desperate former student, wanders through the slums of St Petersburg and commits a random murder without remorse or regret.
Crime and Punishment, novel by Russian writer Fyodor Dostoyevsky, first published in 1866. Centering on the poor former student Raskolnikov, whose theory that humanitarian ends justify evil means leads him to murder, the story is one of the finest studies of the psychopathology of guilt written in any language.
Aug 22, 2001 · Crime and Punishment catapulted Fyodor Dostoyevsky to the forefront of Russian writers and into the ranks of the world's greatest novelists. Supreme masterpiece recounts in feverish, compelling tones the story of Raskolnikov, an impoverished student tormented by his own thoughts after he brutally murders an old woman.
Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky, published in 1866, is a psychological novel that delves into the complexities of morality, guilt, and redemption. The story is set in St. Petersburg, Russia, and follows the life of Rodion Raskolnikov, a destitute and intellectually gifted student who formulates a theory that some individuals are ...
Aug 8, 2012 · In Crime and Punishment, when Raskolnikov, an impoverished student living in the St. Petersburg of the tsars, commits an act of murder and theft, he sets into motion a story that is almost...
A desperate young man plans the perfect crime—the murder of a despicable pawnbroker, an old women no one loves and no one will mourn. Is it not just, he reasons, for a man of genius to commit such a crime, to transgress moral law—if it will ultimately benefit humanity?
A masterpiece of guilt and redemption that transforms the sordid story of an old woman’s murder into the nineteenth century’s profoundest and most compelling philosophical novel.
Dec 31, 2002 · Hailed as one of the greatest novels ever written in all times, Fyodor Dostoyevsky's Crime and Punishment tells the tale of an ex-law student's meticulous, calculated murder of a pawnbroker woman and his showing no remorse for his atrocious crime.
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