Crime and punishment : a novel in six parts with epilogue
Dostoyevsky, Fyodor (1821-1881)
Crime and punishment : a novel in six parts with epilogue / by Fyodor Dostoevsky ; translated and annotated by Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky - 1st Vintage classics ed - New York : Vintage Books , 2021, c1992 - 595 p. ; 21 cm
Includes bibliographical references
Raskolnikov, a destitute and desperate former student, wanders through the slums of St Petersburg and commits a random murder without remorse or regret. He imagines himself to be a great man, a Napoleon: acting for a higher purpose beyond conventional moral law. But as he embarks on a dangerous game of cat and mouse with a suspicious police investigator, Raskolnikov is pursued by the growing voice of his conscience and finds the noose of his own guilt tightening around his neck. Only Sonya, a downtrodden sex worker, can offer the chance of redemption.
Translated from the Russian to English
9780679734505
Saint Petersburg (Russia)----Fiction
Psychological fiction
Detective and mystery stories
PG3326 / .P7 1993
FIC DOS
Crime and punishment : a novel in six parts with epilogue / by Fyodor Dostoevsky ; translated and annotated by Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky - 1st Vintage classics ed - New York : Vintage Books , 2021, c1992 - 595 p. ; 21 cm
Includes bibliographical references
Raskolnikov, a destitute and desperate former student, wanders through the slums of St Petersburg and commits a random murder without remorse or regret. He imagines himself to be a great man, a Napoleon: acting for a higher purpose beyond conventional moral law. But as he embarks on a dangerous game of cat and mouse with a suspicious police investigator, Raskolnikov is pursued by the growing voice of his conscience and finds the noose of his own guilt tightening around his neck. Only Sonya, a downtrodden sex worker, can offer the chance of redemption.
Translated from the Russian to English
9780679734505
Saint Petersburg (Russia)----Fiction
Psychological fiction
Detective and mystery stories
PG3326 / .P7 1993
FIC DOS
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