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Crime and Punishment (Signet Classics)
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Crime and Punishment (Signet Classics) Mass market paperbound - 2006

by Dostoyevsky, Fyodor

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This edition of one of the world's greatest novels--the classic story of justice, morality, and redemption set in19th-century Russia--features a new Afterword and a brand-new package. Revised reissue.

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  • Title Crime and Punishment (Signet Classics)
  • Author Dostoyevsky, Fyodor
  • Binding Mass Market Paperbound
  • Edition [ Edition: first
  • Condition New
  • Pages 560
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Signet Book
  • Date 2006-03-07
  • Features Bibliography, Maps
  • Bookseller's Inventory # 52GZZZ00K96A_ns
  • ISBN 9780451530066 / 0451530063
  • Weight 0.57 lbs (0.26 kg)
  • Dimensions 6.78 x 4.22 x 1.28 in (17.22 x 10.72 x 3.25 cm)
  • Ages 18 to UP years
  • Grade levels 13 - UP
  • Reading level 900
  • Themes
    • Cultural Region: Russian
  • Library of Congress subjects Psychological fiction, Russia
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 2006279939
  • Dewey Decimal Code FIC

Summary

One of the world’s greatest novels, Crime and Punishment is the story of a murder and its consequences—an unparalleled tale of suspense set in the midst of nineteenth-century Russia’s troubled transition to the modern age.

In the slums of czarist St. Petersburg lives young Raskolnikov, a sensitive, intellectual student. The poverty he has always known drives him to believe that he is exempt from moral law. But when he puts this belief to the test and commits murder, there results unbearable suffering. Crime and punishment, the novel reminds us, “grow from the same seed.”

“No other novelist,” wrote Irving Howe of Dostoyevsky, “has dramatized so powerfully the values and dangers, the uses and corruptions of systematized thought.” But Sigmund Freud and others saw the Russian’s work in a different light. Said Freud, “He might have been a liberator of mankind. Instead he chose to be its jailer.”

“He is the only psychologist I have anything to learn from.”—Friedrich Nietzsche

From the publisher

Fyodor Dostoyevsky (1821–1881), one of nineteenth-century Russia’s greatest novelists, spent four years in a convict prison in Siberia, after which he was obliged to enlist in the army. In later years his penchant for gambling sent him deeply into debt. Most of his important works were written after 1864, including Notes from Underground, Crime and Punishment, The Idiot, and The Brothers Karamazov, all available from Penguin Classics.

First line

Early one evening, during an exceptional heat wave in the beginning of July, a young man walked out into the Street from the closetlike room he rented on Stoliarny Place.

About the author

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.

Leonard J. Stanton is Associate Professor of Russian and James D. Hardy Jr. is Professor of History and Associate Dean of the Honors College at the Louisiana State University.

Robin Feuer Miller has written on Dostoyevsky, Dickens, Rousseau, Tolstoy, Chekhov, William James, and the nineteenth-century novel. Her books on Dostoyevsky include Dostoyevsky and The Idiot: Author, Narrator, and Reader and The Brothers Karamazov: Worlds of the Novel. She is Edytha Macy Gross Professor of Humanities at Brandeis University, where she teaches Russian and Comparative Literature.

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