Crime And Punishment
Condition: SECONDHAND
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Edition: repr.,
Condition remarks:
Book: Fair
Jacket: Wear and tear with damage
Pages: Yellowed
Markings: Previous owner
Few novels in the Western canon have so relentlessly dissected the human conscience as Fyodor Dostoevsky's Crime and Punishment. Set in the suffocating heat of mid-nineteenth-century St. Petersburg, the novel chronicles the tortured interior world of Rodion Raskolnikov, an impoverished former student who convinces himself that a extraordinary man stands above conventional morality — and then murders a pawnbroker to prove it. What follows is not a simple whodunit but a searing psychological portrait of guilt, paranoia, and the inexorable collapse of a theory built on intellectual arrogance, played out against the teeming squalor of imperial Russia's urban poor. Translated into luminous English by Constance Garnett, whose pioneering work introduced generations of English-speaking readers to Russian literature, this edition from William Heinemann Ltd remains a landmark in literary history. Dostoevsky writes with the ferocious intensity of a man who has himself stared into the abyss — having survived a mock execution and years in a Siberian labour camp — and that hard-won moral authority saturates every page. The novel argues, with devastating conviction, that no idea, however brilliantly conceived, can insulate a man from the weight of his own humanity. Whether Raskolnikov finds redemption or is consumed by his own rationalizations is a question that will haunt the reader long after the final page is turned.
Author: Fyodor Dostoevsky
Format: Hardback
Published: 1954, William Heinemann Ltd
Genre: Classic fiction
Edition: repr.,
Condition remarks:
Book: Fair
Jacket: Wear and tear with damage
Pages: Yellowed
Markings: Previous owner
Few novels in the Western canon have so relentlessly dissected the human conscience as Fyodor Dostoevsky's Crime and Punishment. Set in the suffocating heat of mid-nineteenth-century St. Petersburg, the novel chronicles the tortured interior world of Rodion Raskolnikov, an impoverished former student who convinces himself that a extraordinary man stands above conventional morality — and then murders a pawnbroker to prove it. What follows is not a simple whodunit but a searing psychological portrait of guilt, paranoia, and the inexorable collapse of a theory built on intellectual arrogance, played out against the teeming squalor of imperial Russia's urban poor. Translated into luminous English by Constance Garnett, whose pioneering work introduced generations of English-speaking readers to Russian literature, this edition from William Heinemann Ltd remains a landmark in literary history. Dostoevsky writes with the ferocious intensity of a man who has himself stared into the abyss — having survived a mock execution and years in a Siberian labour camp — and that hard-won moral authority saturates every page. The novel argues, with devastating conviction, that no idea, however brilliantly conceived, can insulate a man from the weight of his own humanity. Whether Raskolnikov finds redemption or is consumed by his own rationalizations is a question that will haunt the reader long after the final page is turned.