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Crime and Punishment

By Fyodor Dostoevsky
Series: Oxford World's Classics
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Crime and Punishment follows the troubled student Raskolnikov, who believes that killing an old moneylender will free him from debt and serve a greater good by removing 'vermin'. Torn by guilt and fear, his conscience is stirred by his love for Sonya, while detective Porfiry closes in. Dostoevsky's novel delves deeply into psychology, set against the backdrop of 19th-century St Petersburg, exploring morality, poverty, and redemption.
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Format: Paperback / softback
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Ideal for readers interested in classic literature, psychological novels, and Russian cultural history. Also recommended for those studying Dostoevsky or 19th-century social and literary contexts.

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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. It is marked by Dostoevsky's own harrowing experience in penal servitude, and yet contains moments of wild humour.

A new translation of Dostoevsky's epic masterpiece, Crime and Punishment (1866).

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One death, in exchange for thousands of lives - it's simple arithmetic! This is a new translation of Dostoevsky's epic masterpiece, Crime and Punishment (1866) by Nicolas Pasternak Slater, with editorial material by the UK's leading Dostoevsky expert, Dr Sarah J. Young.

The impoverished student Raskolnikov decides to free himself from debt by killing an old moneylender, an act he sees as elevating himself above conventional morality. Like Napoleon, he will assert his will, and his crime will be justified by its elimination of 'vermin' for the sake of the greater good. However, Raskolnikov is torn apart by fear, guilt, and a growing conscience under the influence of his love for Sonya. Meanwhile, the police detective Porfiry is on his trail. It is a powerfully psychological novel, in which the St Petersburg setting, Dostoevsky's own circumstances, and contemporary social problems all play their part.

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  • A major new translation of Dostoevsky's enduring classic by Nicolas Pasternak Slater, with editorial material by the UK's leading Dostoevsky expert, Dr Sarah J. Young.
  • Gives a brief biographical sketch of Dostoevsky, focusing on aspects of his life most pertinent to the writing of Crime and Punishment—his experience of prison and the criminals he met there, and his money troubles in the 1860s when he was working on the novel.
  • Provides an assessment of critical trends and approaches to the novel, detailing the literary and historical context, with emphasis on the Petersburg setting as a literary theme and a contemporary social context.
  • Notes elucidate potentially obscure references in the text, and also connect the novel to the wider context of Dostoevsky's writing and 19th-century Russian culture, citing other classics of Russian literature and accessible secondary works.

ABOUT THE SERIES

For over 100 years, Oxford World's Classics has made available the widest range of literature from around the globe. Each affordable volume reflects Oxford's commitment to scholarship, providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable features, including expert introductions by leading authorities, helpful notes to clarify the text, up-to-date bibliographies for further study, and much more.

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"Superb... the Oxford University Press edition is beautifully produced and competitively priced." – Times Literary Supplement

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INFORMATION

ISBN: 9780198709718

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 28 March 2019

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: Oxford University Press

Contributors:

  • Translated by Nicolas Pasternak Slater
  • Edited by Sarah J. Young

Audience: Tertiary education, Professional and scholarly

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 24.0mm

Width: 144.0mm

Height: 196.0mm

Weight: 378g

Pages: 544

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Classic Fiction Fiction Fyodor Dostoevsky General Fiction Literary Fiction Series: Oxford World's Classics

About the Author

Nicolas Pasternak Slater has translated several works by Boris Pasternak, most recently The Family Correspondence, 1921-1960 (Hoover Press, 2010). For Oxford World's Classics, he has translated Lermontov's A Hero of Our Time (2013) and Tolstoy's The Death of Ivan Ilyich and Other Stories (2015). Sarah J. Young is Senior Lecturer in Russian at the School of Slavonic and East European Studies, University College London, where she teaches and researches nineteenth- and twentieth-century Russian literature, culture, and thought. She is the author of Dostoevsky's 'The Idiot' and the Ethical Foundations of Narrative (Anthem Press, 2004), and co-editor of Dostoevsky on the Threshold of Other Worlds (Bramcote Press, 2006).

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