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Crime and Punishment (Hardcover)

by F.M. Dostoevsky (Author) "TOWARDS the end of a sultry afternoon early in July a young man came out of his little room in Stolyarny Lane and turned slowly..." (more)
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  • Hardcover: 532 pages
  • Publisher: Indypublish.com; First Thus, First Printing edition (15 Jan 2003)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 1404344640
  • ISBN-13: 978-1404344648
  • Product Dimensions: 22.9 x 15.2 x 3 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (78 customer reviews)

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A troubled young man commits the perfect crime - the murder of a vile pawnbroker whom no one will miss. Raskolnikov is desperate for money, but convinces himself that his motive for the murder is to benefit mankind. So begins one of the greatest novels ever written, a journey into the criminal mind, a police thriller, and a philosophical meditation on morality and redemption. --This text refers to the Paperback edition.

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Richard Peace is Emeritus Professor of Russian at Bristol University. He is the author of Dostoevsky: An Examination of his Major Novels. --This text refers to the Paperback edition.

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TOWARDS the end of a sultry afternoon early in July a young man came out of his little room in Stolyarny Lane and turned slowly and somewhat irresolutely in the direction of Kamenny Bridge. Read the first page
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31 of 31 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars By far the BEST TRANSLATION of one of the true masterpieces, 2 Oct 2003
I read the Wordsworth Classics translation of Crime and Punishment when I was 16 and thought it was awful. I could not understand why this book was considered such a masterpiece. Afterwards I read the Penguin translation by David McDuff. It was much better. A good read, and I realised the importance of a good translation. Then I came across the Vintage edition by Richard Pevear. Its brilliant!! By far the best. The Penguin edition by comparison is stitled, unfluent, and the language is quite dated. Pevear's translation reads like a modern novel, and you feel the passion, the darkness, the cerebral torments of Dostoevsky's characters. Its impossible to hype this book enough. It is quite simply one of the greatest novels ever written and this translation does it justice. Most bookstores will have numerous copies of the Penguin edition. Ignore it, and get hold of the Vintage one. Its miles better!
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20 of 21 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars A fine prospect, 29 April 2005
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Undoubtedly this is a remarkable book and not at all what I was expecting as I first picked it up. I would recommend that the reader cast aside any preconceived ideas about this author and about the mid-Victorian era in which his story takes place, because this book really does have a very modern feel and a very accessible and easy prose and dialogue.

The reader first joins the tale as the morose, dejected down-and-out and former student Raskolnikov contemplates, and is inexorably drawn towards and fixated by the idea of, murdering an old lady pawnbroker with whom he has had business. It only becomes clear later exactly why he did so, and even then his justifications are misguided and muddled in his own mind and essentially some flight of fancy about the permissibility of any behaviour for the greater good - a means to an end, as it were.

But what is most fascinating is not the crime itself or the murderer's fate, but how his crime then comes to obsess him until he can stand it no longer and has been defeated by his own inner struggle with his conscience, which has been forever tormenting him. The dual between Porfiry Petrovich, the police investigator, and Raskolnikov and the mind games and double bluffs that are played on both sides as our antihero tries to evade detection is particularly intriguing. The suspense is palpable.

All in all this is a pretty bleak tale of suffering and a heart-rending one at that. But there is not just introspection, self-examination and 'philosophising' here, but also action, suspense, pathos and genuine sorrow in the ending, which managed to be profound without being sentimental or melodramatic.
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20 of 21 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars Deep and intense, 6 Dec 2002
This book is a superb piece of literature, Dostoyevsky's style - intentse, vivid, compelling - draws you into the inner world of the protaganist, the introspective student Raskolnikov, as he rationalises and debates with himself, before, during and after his terrible crime. Once you are drawn into this inner realm, Dostoyevsky leads you deeper and deeper spiraling into the dark recesses of the mind.

Not only is the book multi-layered, tackling many issues: moral, judicial, cultural, social and providing an excellent expose of the human psyche, but it is a book with a page turning plot.

This combination of Dostoyevsky's prose and the issues with which he deals and the tense story line results in a compelling, gripping and absorbing read.

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1.0 out of 5 stars Dear Lord.
I was keen to read this book as a necessary part of my literary education. I read the Penguin Classic translation and must admit that I spent most of the novel wondering whether... Read more
Published 1 month ago by E. Coates

5.0 out of 5 stars As near to perfection as you can get
Eighty per cent of reviewers of this book gave it the full five stars which says it all. Even the greatest pieces of classic literature can be divisive but it appears that Crime... Read more
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No attempt at a thesis here. This is a very good book but, in truth, not one I would put in the 'have to read before you die' category. Read more
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I'm afraid I'm one of the naysayers on this one. A depressing book with a set of characters that are constantly on the edge of a breakdown. Read more
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5.0 out of 5 stars the greatest novel ever written
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5.0 out of 5 stars Start here
If you have not read Dostoyevsky or Russian literature then read this book first. I can honesty agree with the view that you need to stick with it at first, although use this... Read more
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5.0 out of 5 stars My favourite work of fiction
An epic book grappling with the political and philsophical ideas of the day(utilitiarianism, nihilism) and religion. Read more
Published 5 months ago by G. C. Brown

4.0 out of 5 stars Good translation of a classic .... but it's still a slog!
I tend to like the classics - and this was a book I had been meaning to read for a long time. There's no doubt it's a good translation (not that I've seen the orginal of course,... Read more
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