Crime and Punishment
$19.83
- Paperback
576 pages
- Release Date
1 February 1998
Summary
Fyodor Dostoevsky’s masterpiece - a powerful psychological study, a terrifying murder mystery, and a fascinating detective thriller infused with philosophical, religious, and social commentary.
One of Time’s 100 Best Mystery and Thriller Books of All Time. Nominated as one of America’s best-loved novels by PBS’s The Great American Read.
A desperate young man plans the perfect crime - the murder of a despicable pawnbroker, an old woman no one loves and no one will mourn. Is it …
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780553211757 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0553211757 |
| Author: | Fyodor Dostoevsky, Constance Garnett |
| Publisher: | Random House USA Inc |
| Imprint: | Bantam Classics |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 576 |
| Release Date: | 1 February 1998 |
| Weight: | 261g |
| Dimensions: | 174mm x 107mm x 23mm |
| Series: | Crime & Punishment |
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About The Author
Fyodor Dostoevsky
Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky’s life was as dark and dramatic as the great novels he wrote. He was born in Moscow in 1821. A short first novel, Poor Folk (1846) brought him instant success, but his writing career was cut short by his arrest for alleged subversion against Tsar Nicholas I in 1849. In prison he was given the “silent treatment” for eight months (guards even wore velvet soled boots) before he was led in front a firing squad. Dressed in a death shroud, he faced an open grave and awaited execution, when suddenly, an order arrived commuting his sentence. He then spent four years at hard labor in a Siberian prison, where he began to suffer from epilepsy, and he returned to St. Petersburg only a full ten years after he had left in chains.
His prison experiences coupled with his conversion to a profoundly religious philosophy formed the basis for his great novels. But it was his fortuitous marriage to Anna Snitkina, following a period of utter destitution brought about by his compulsive gambling, that gave Dostoevsky the emotional stability to complete Crime and Punishment (1866), The Idiot (1868-69), The Possessed (1871-72),and The Brothers Karamazov (1879-80). When Dostoevsky died in 1881, he left a legacy of masterworks that influenced the great thinkers and writers of the Western world and immortalized him as a giant among writers of world literature.
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