Fyodor Dostoevsky, Constance Garnett, Joseph Frank
Crime and Punishment
Mass Market Paperback
(Bantam Classics July 1, 1984)
, Reissue Edition
Nominated as one of America’s best-loved novels by PBS’s The Great American Read
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? So begins one of the greatest novels ever written: a powerful psychological study, a terrifying murder mystery, a fascinating detective thriller infused with philosophical, religious and social commentary. 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. Crime and Punishment takes the reader on a journey into the darkest recesses of the criminal and depraved mind, and exposes the soul of a man possessed by both good and evil . . . a man who cannot escape his own conscience.
- ISBN
- 9780553211 / 9780553211757
- Pages
- 576
- Weight
- 9.9 oz.
- Dimensions
- 4.18 x 0.94
in.