Crime and Punishment - (Penguin Designer Classics)

Fyodor Dostoevsky

ISBN 10: 0713999497 / ISBN 13: 9780713999495

Editore: Penguin Classics Hardcover, 2006

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See photos. Sealed. #579 of a limited print run of 1,000.

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• Titolo: Crime and Punishment - (Penguin Designer Classics)
• Editore: Penguin Classics Hardcover
• Data di pubblicazione: 2006
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 0713999497
• ISBN 13: 9780713999495
• Rilegatura: Hardcover
• Edizione: 1st Edition
• Condizione: Very Good +
• Condizione della sovraccoperta: Very Good+
• Cataloghi dei venditori:
  • Vitclo

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Riassunto

This is one of 1000 limited-edition copies of Crime and Pumishment published to mark the sixtieth anniversary of Penguin Classics, with a special jacket created by Fuel. Raskolnikov, a destitute and desperate former student, wanders through the slums of St Petersburg and commits a random murder without remorse or regret. He imagines himself to be a great man, a Napoleon: acting for a higher purpose beyond conventional moral law. But as he embarks on a dangerous game of cat and mouse with a suspicious police investigator, Raskolnikov is pursued by the growing voice of his conscience and finds the noose of his own guilt tightening around his neck. Only Sonya, a downtrodden prostitute, can offer the chance of redemption.

Informazioni sull?autore

Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky was born in Moscow in 1821. His debut, the epistolary novella Poor Folk(1846), made his name. In 1849 he was arrested for involvement with the politically subversive 'Petrashevsky circle' and until 1854 he lived in a convict prison in Omsk, Siberia. From this experience came The House of the Dead (1860-2). In 1860 he began the journal Vremya (Time). Already married, he fell in love with one of his contributors, Appollinaria Suslova, eighteen years his junior, and developed a ruinous passion for roulette. After the death of his first wife, Maria, in 1864, Dostoyevsky completed Notes from Underground and began work towards Crime and Punishment (1866). The major novels of his late period are The Idiot (1868), Demons(1871-2) and The Brothers Karamazov (1879-80). He died in 1881.