Crime and Punishment

by Fyodor Dostoyevsky (Author)

• Used

  Paperback
  2007

  $26.04

  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.

• Used

  Paperback
  1995

  $3.41

  Crime and Punishment is one of the most important novels of the nineteenth century. It is the story of a murder committed on principle, of a killer who wishes to set himself outside and above society. The novel is marked by Dostoevsky's own harrowing experience in penal servitude, and yet contains moments of wild humor. This new edition of the authoritative and readable Coulson translation comes with a challenging new introduction and notes that elucidate many of the novel's most important--and difficult--aspects.

• New

  Paperback
  2008

  $13.87

  A masterful adaptation exploring the mental anguish and moral dilemmas of Raskolnikov, a poor St. Petersburg student, who murders a miserly pawnbroker. Illustrated by Alain Korkos, a French writer and artist whose most recent graphic novel, Introducing Camus, adapted by David Mairowitz, has been a great success.

• New

  Hardcover
  1993

  $19.19

  Dostoesky's drama of sin, guilt and redemption transmutes the sordid story of an old woman's murder by a desperate student into the nineteenth century's profoundest and most compelling philosophical novel. Grim in theme and setting, the book nevertheless seduces by its combination of superbly drawn characters, narrative brilliance and manic comedy.