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Binding: Mass Market Paperback
Brand: Penguin Group USA
EAN: 9780451530066
ISBN: 0451530063
Item Dimensions: 12867857422
Label: Signet Classics
Languages: EnglishUnknownEnglishOriginal LanguageEnglishPublished
Manufacturer: Signet Classics
MPN: 9780451530066
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 560
Publication Date: March 07, 2006
Publisher: Signet Classics
Release Date: March 07, 2006
Studio: Signet Classics
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Product Description:
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
Amazon.com Review:
Mired in poverty, the student Raskolnikov nevertheless thinks well of himself. Of his pawnbroker he takes a different view, and in deciding to do away with her he sets in motion his own tragic downfall. Dostoyevsky's penetrating novel of an intellectual whose moral compass goes haywire, and the detective who hunts him down for his terrible crime, is a stunning psychological portrait, a thriller and a profound meditation on guilt and retribution.
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