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Fyodor Dostoevsky
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Crime and Punishment, Literary Touchstone Edition |
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No copies available |
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English |
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Paperback |
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494 |
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2005-07-01 |
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1580493971 |
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Prestwick House, Inc. |
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1.35 pounds |
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6.0 x 8.9 x 1.1 inches |
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Product Description
This Prestwick House Literary Touchstone Edition includes a glossary and readers notes to help the modern reader understand the turbulent and dynamic world of Dostoevskys St. Petersburg. When Raskolnikov, a young student, is driven to murder by desperate poverty and a belief in his own superiority, he is plunged into a dark hell of guilt and delirium. Set in the gloomy slums of St. Petersburg in the 1860s, this stark and gripping psychological tale describes a mans search for redemption in the face of suffering and a societys search for meaning in the chaos of a changing world. Shortly after returning from a decade-long exile in Siberia, Dostoevsky fled creditors only to end up living in destitution in Austria. Staying in a hotel he couldnt afford, with barely enough money for tea, he composed this masterfully modern examination of a murderer's mind.
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