Crime and Punishment Contributor(s): Dostoyevsky, Fyodor (Author), Garnett, Constance (Translator) |
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ISBN: 0486415872 ISBN-13: 9780486415871 Publisher: Dover Publications OUR PRICE: $6.30 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: August 2001 Annotation: Supreme masterpiece recounts in feverish, compelling tones the story of Raskolnikov, an impoverished student tormented by his own thoughts after he brutally murders an old woman. Overwhelmed afterwards by guilt and terror, Raskolnikov confesses and goes to prison. There he realizes that happiness and redemption can only be achieved through suffering. Constance Garnett translation. |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Classics - Fiction | Psychological |
Dewey: FIC |
LCCN: 00065906 |
Lexile Measure: 900 |
Series: Dover Thrift Editions |
Physical Information: 1.2" H x 5.2" W x 8.2" (0.70 lbs) 448 pages |
Themes: - Cultural Region - Russia |
Accelerated Reader Info |
Quiz #: 703 Reading Level: 8.7 Interest Level: Upper Grades Point Value: 40.0 |
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
Publisher Description: The two years before he wrote Crime and Punishment (1866) had been bad ones for Dostoyevsky. His wife and brother had died; the magazine he and his brother had started, Epoch, collapsed under its load of debt; and he was threatened with debtor's prison. With an advance that he managed to wangle for an unwritten novel, he fled to Wiesbaden, hoping to win enough at the roulette table to get himself out of debt. Instead, he lost all his money; he had to pawn his clothes and beg friends for loans to pay his hotel bill and get back to Russia. One of his begging letters went to a magazine editor, asking for an advance on yet another unwritten novel -- which he described as Crime and Punishment. |