Crime and Punishment (9780140449136)
Author:
Fyodor Dostoevsky
Publisher:
Penguin Books
ISBN:
9780140449136
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Format:
Paperback
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0
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Publishing Date:
2021
Number of Pages:
671
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Language:
English
Condition:
New
'Crime? What crime?...My killing a loathsome, harmful louse, a filthy old moneylender woman...and you call that a crime?'
Raskolnikov, a destitute and desperate former student, wanders through the slums of St Petersburg and commits a random murder without remorse or regret. He imagines himself to be a great man, a Napoleon: acting for a higher purpose beyond conventional moral law. But as he embarks on a dangerous game of cat and mouse with a suspicious police investigator, Raskolnikov is pursued by the growing voice of his conscience and finds the noose of his own guilt tightening around his neck. Only Sonya, a downtrodden prostitute, can offer the chance of redemption.