Crime and Punishment

'One death, in exchange for thousands of lives - it's simple arithmetic!' A new translation of Dostoevsky's epic masterpiece, Crime and Punishment (1866). The impoverished student Raskolnikov decides to free himself from debt by killing an old moneylender, an act he sees as elevating himself above conventional morality. Like Napoleon he will assert his will and his crime will be justified by its elimination of 'vermin' for the sake of the greater good. But Raskolnikov is torn apart by fear, guilt, and a growing conscience under the influence of his love for Sonya. Meanwhile the police detective Porfiry is on his trail. It is a powerfully psychological novel, in which the St Petersburg setting, Dostoevsky's own circumstances, and contemporary social problems all play their part.

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• Authors: Fyodor Dostoevsky, Dostoevsky Fyodor, Fjodor M. Dostojewskij, Fjodor M. 10001845965 Dostojewskij
• Assisted by: Sarah J. Young (Editor), Sarah J. (Senior Lecturer in Russian Young (Editor), Young Sarah J. (Editor), Nicolas Pasternak Slater (Translation), Nicolas Pasternak Slater (Translation), Slater Nicolas Pasternak (Translation)
• Publisher: Oxford University Press Trade
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.10.2017
• EAN: 9780198709701
• ISBN: 978-0-19-870970-1
• Dimensions: 145 mm x 255 mm x 45 mm
• Series: Oxford World's Classics Hardback Collection; Oxford World's Classics Hardback Collection
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories; Classic fiction (pre c 1945), Fiction in translation, LITERARY COLLECTIONS / Ancient & Classical, 19th century, c 1800 to c 1899, Russian, Biography, Literature and Literary studies, Classic fiction: general and literary, LITERARY CRITICISM / Russian & Soviet, LITERARY COLLECTIONS / Russian & Soviet