Crime and Punishment: Introduction by W J Leatherbarrow

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Crime and Punishment: Introduction by W J Leatherbarrow - Hardcover

Crime and Punishment: Introduction by W J Leatherbarrow - Hardcover

by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
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Front Jacket

Introduction by W. J. Leatherbarrow; Translation by Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky

Back Jacket

Determined to overreach his humanity and assert his untrammelled individual will, Raskolnikov, and impoverished student living in the St. Petersburg of the Tsars, commits an act of murder and theft and sets into motion a story which, for its excruciating suspense, its atmospheric vividness, and its profundity of characterization and vision, is almost unequaled in the literatures of the world. The best known of Dostoevsky's masterpieces, Crime And Punishment can bear any amount of rereading without losing a drop of its power over our imagination.
ISBN9780679420293
Author Fyodor Dostoyevsky
PublisherEveryman's Library
GenreLiterature
FormatHardcover
PublishedMay 1993
LanguageENG- English
Pages608
Weight1.0 lb
Target AudienceTeens & young adults
Print SizeStandard Print

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About Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Fyodor Dostoyevsky (1821-81) was educated in Moscow and at the School of Military Engineers in St. Petersburg, where he spent four years. In 1846, he wrote his first novel, Poor Folk; it was an immediate critical and popular success. This was followed by short stories and the novel The Double. While at work on Netochka Nezvanova, the twenty-seven-year-old author was arrested for belonging to a young socialist group. He was tried and condemned to death, but at the last moment his sentence was commuted to prison in Siberia. He spent four years in the penal settlement as Omsk. In 1859, he was granted full amnesty and allowed to return to St. Petersburg. In the fourteen years before his death, Dostoyevsky produced his greatest works, including Crime and Punishment, The Idiot, The Possessed, and The Brothers Karamazov. The last was published a year before his death.

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