Title:
Crime and Punishment
Genre:
Adventure
Action
Drama
Literature
Mystery
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Series:
Penguin Classics
Narrative:
First Person Omniscient
Type of Book:
Fiction
Number of Chapters:
8
Synopsis:
Translated by David McDuff.
A desperate young man plans the perfect crime -- the murder of a despicable pawnbroker, an old women no one loves and no one will mourn.
Is it not just, he reasons, for a man of genius to commit such a crime, to transgress moral law -- if it will ultimately benefit humanity?
Raskolnikov, an impoverished student living in a garret in the gloomy slums of St. Petersburg, carries out his grotesque scheme and plunges into a hell of persecution, madness and terror.
A desperate young man plans the perfect crime -- the murder of a despicable pawnbroker, an old women no one loves and no one will mourn.
Is it not just, he reasons, for a man of genius to commit such a crime, to transgress moral law -- if it will ultimately benefit humanity?
Raskolnikov, an impoverished student living in a garret in the gloomy slums of St. Petersburg, carries out his grotesque scheme and plunges into a hell of persecution, madness and terror.
Publisher:
Random House New York
Publication Date:
1956-08-01
Date Added:
2018-06-26 17:01:42
