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Crime and punishment / Fyodor Dostoyevsky ; translated with an introduction and notes by David McDuff.

By: Contributor(s): Language: English Original language: Russian Publication details: London ; New York : Penguin, 2003.Edition: Revised editionDescription: xxxiv, 671 pages ; 20 cmISBN:
  • 9780140449136
  • 0140449132
Uniform titles:
  • Prestuplenie i nakazanie. English.
Subject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 891.73/3 22
LOC classification:
  • PG3326 .P7 2003
Other classification:
  • I512.44
Summary: Raskolnikov, a destitute and desperate former student, commits a random murder, imagining himself to be a great man far above moral law. But as he embarks on a cat-and-mouse game with police, his conscience begins to torment him and he seeks sympathy and redemption from Sonya, a downtrodden prostitute.
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"Reissued with revisions 2003" --Title page verso.

"This translation first published by Viking 1991." --Title page verso.

Bibliography : pages xxiii-xxiv.

Raskolnikov, a destitute and desperate former student, commits a random murder, imagining himself to be a great man far above moral law. But as he embarks on a cat-and-mouse game with police, his conscience begins to torment him and he seeks sympathy and redemption from Sonya, a downtrodden prostitute.

Translated from the Russian.

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