Crime and Punishment (Barnes & Noble Classics)

(Book Jacket Status: Jacketed) Dostoevsky’s drama of sin, guilt, and redemption transforms the sordid story of an old woman’s murder into the nineteenth century’s profoundest and most compelling philosophical novel. Raskolnikov, an impoverished student living in the St. Petersburg of the tsars, is determined to overreach his humanity and assert his untrammeled individual will. When he commits an act of murder and theft, he sets into motion a story that, for its excruciating suspense, its atmospheric vividness, and its depth 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 imaginations. Award-winning translators Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky render this elusive and wildly innovative novel with an energy, suppleness, and range of voice that do full justice to the genius of its creator.

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few Authors Have Been As Personally Familiar With Desperation As Fyodor Dostoevsky, And None Have Been So Adept At Describing It. crime And Punishment—the Novel That Heralded The Author’s Period Of Masterworks—tells The Story Of The Poor And Talented Student Raskolnikov, A Character Of Unparalleled Psychological Depth And Complexity. Raskolnikov Reasons That Men Like Himself, By Virtue Of Their Intellectual Superiority, Can And Must Transcend Societal Law. To Test His Theory, He Devises The Perfect Crime—the Murder Of A Spiteful Pawnbroker Living In St. Petersburg.

in One Of The Most Gripping Crime Stories Of All Time, Raskolnikov Soon Realizes The Folly Of His Abstractions. Haunted By Vivid Hallucinations And The Torments Of His Conscience, He Seeks Relief From His Terror And Moral Isolation—first From Sonia, The Pious Streetwalker Who Urges Him To Confess, Then In A Tense Game Of Cat And Mouse With Porfiry, The Brilliant Magistrate Assigned To The Murder Investigation. A tour De Force Of Suspense, crime And Punishment Delineates The Theories And Motivations That Underlie A Bankrupt Morality.

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From [wikipedia][1]: Crime and Punishment (Russian: Преступлéние и наказáние, tr. Prestupleniye i nakazaniye; IPA: [prjɪstʊˈpljenjə ɪ nəkɐˈzanjə]) is a novel by the Russian author Fyodor Dostoyevsky. It was first published in the literary journal The Russian Messenger in twelve monthly installments during 1866.[1] It was later published in a single volume. It is the second of Dostoyevsky's full-length novels following his return from ten years of exile in Siberia. Crime and Punishment is considered the first great novel of his "mature" period of writing.[2] Crime and Punishment focuses on the mental anguish and moral dilemmas of Rodion Raskolnikov, an impoverished ex-student in St. Petersburg who formulates and executes a plan to kill an unscrupulous pawnbroker for her cash. Raskolnikov argues that with the pawnbroker's money he can perform good deeds to counterbalance the crime, while ridding the world of a worthless vermin. He also commits this murder to test his own hypothesis that some people are naturally capable of such things, and even have the right to do them. Several times throughout the novel, Raskolnikov justifies his actions by comparing himself with Napoleon Bonaparte, believing that murder is permissible in pursuit of a higher purpose. ---------- See also: - [Преступлéние и наказáние: 1/2](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL7998899W/Prestuplenie_i_nakazanie._1_2) [1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crime_and_Punishment

Through the story of the brilliant but conflicted young Raskolnikov and the murder he commits, Fyodor Dostoevsky explores the theme of redemption through suffering. Crime and Punishment put Dostoevsky at the forefront of Russian writers when it appeared in 1866 and is now one of the most famous and influential novels in world literature.

The poverty-stricken Raskolnikov, a talented student, devises a theory about extraordinary men being above the law, since in their brilliance they think new thoughts and so contribute to society. He then sets out to prove his theory by murdering a vile, cynical old pawnbroker and her sister. The act brings Raskolnikov into contact with his own buried conscience and with two characters the deeply religious Sonia, who has endured great suffering, and Porfiry, the intelligent and discerning official who is charged with investigating the murder both of whom compel Raskolnikov to feel the split in his nature. Dostoevsky provides readers with a suspenseful, penetrating psychological analysis that goes beyond the crime which in the course of the novel demands drastic punishment to reveal something about the human condition: The more we intellectualize, the more imprisoned we become.

Hailed by Washington Post Book World as "the best [translation] currently available" when it was first published, this second edition of Crime and Punishment has been updated in honor of the 200th anniversary of Dostoevsky's birth. - ONE OF TIME MAGAZINE'S 100 BEST MYSTERY AND THRILLER BOOKS OF ALL TIME With the same suppleness, energy, and range of voices that won their translation of The Brothers Karamazov the PEN/Book-of-the-Month Club Prize, Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky offer a brilliant translation of Crime and Punishment, Dostoevsky's astounding pyschological thriller, newly revised for his bicentenniel. In Crime and Punishment, when Raskolnikov, an impoverished student living in the St. Petersburg of the tsars, commits an act of murder and theft, he sets into motion a story that is almost unequalled in world literature for its excruciating suspense, its atmospheric vividness, and its depth of characterization and vision. Dostoevsky's drama of sin, guilt, and redemption transforms the sordid story of an old woman's murder into the nineteenth century's profoundest and most compelling philosophical novel. CRIME AND PUNISHMENT 1 BY FYODOR DOSTOEVSKY 1 TRANSLATED BY CONSTANCE GARNETT 1 TRANSLATOR'S PREFACE 2 CRIME AND PUNISHMENT 5 PART I 5 CHAPTER I 5 CHAPTER II 16 CHAPTER III 39 CHAPTER IV 56 CHAPTER V 72 CHAPTER VI 86 CHAPTER VII 102 PART II 118 CHAPTER I 118 CHAPTER II 141 CHAPTER III 154 CHAPTER IV 172 CHAPTER V 185 CHAPTER VI 200 CHAPTER VII 226 PART III 250 CHAPTER I 250 CHAPTER II 267 CHAPTER III 282 CHAPTER IV 300 CHAPTER V 316 CHAPTER VI 340 PART IV 354 CHAPTER I 354 "CAN THIS BE STILL A DREAM?" RASKOLNIKOV THOUGHT ONCE MORE. 354 CHAPTER II 371 CHAPTER III 387 CHAPTER IV 397 CHAPTER V 418 CHAPTER VI 441 WHEN HE REMEMBERED THE SCENE AFTERWARDS, THIS IS HOW RASKOLNIKOV SAW IT. 441 PART V 452 CHAPTER I 452 CHAPTER II 472 CHAPTER III 489 CHAPTER IV 507 CHAPTER V 529 LEBEZIATNIKOV LOOKED PERTURBED. 529 PART VI 547 CHAPTER I 547 CHAPTER II 559 CHAPTER III 577 CHAPTER IV 590 CHAPTER V 604 RASKOLNIKOV WALKED AFTER HIM. 604 CHAPTER VI 622 CHAPTER VII 640 CHAPTER VIII 652 EPILOGUE 665 I 665 II 675 Determined to overreach his humanity and assert his untrammeled 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 Raskolnikov, a former Russian student, murders an old pawnbroker and her sister for money, and then must struggle to live with the guilt that comes as a result of his crimes Raskolnikoff murders an old moneylender and her sister, and after a lengthy investigation a saintly prostitute Sonya convinces him to confess Believing he can commit the perfect crime, a man robs and murders an elderly pawnbroker but soon realizes the folly of his actions