CRIME AND PUNISHMENT
I wanted to make myself a Napoleon, states Raskolnikov, "and that is why I killed her,' Crime and Punishment is the story of a murder committed on principle, of a killer who wishes by his action to set himself outside and above society. A novel of fearful tension, physical and psychologic...
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| Language: | English |
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Oxford University Press
1980
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| Series: | The World's classics
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Add Tag | Summary: | I wanted to make myself a Napoleon, states Raskolnikov, "and that is why I killed her,' Crime and Punishment is the story of a murder committed on principle, of a killer who wishes by his action to set himself outside and above society. A novel of fearful tension, physical and psychological-will Raskolnikov be trapped in the upstairs room holding the bloody axe?-will his image of himself as a superman crack under the pressure of the law and of his own conscience?-it is pervaded by Dostoevsky's sinister evocation of St. Petersburg, yet the life of its gloomy tenements and drink-shops provides moments of wild humour. |
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| Physical Description: | xviii, 530 pages 19 cm |
| ISBN: | 0192815490 |
Crime and punishment