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  Crime and Punishment (Wordsworth Classics) (Paperback) By (author) Fyodor Dostoevsky, Translated by Constance Garnett, Introduction and notes by Dr. Keith Carabine, Series edited by Dr. Keith Carabine

  

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  Short Description for Crime and PunishmentA novel built out of a series of dramatic scenes that illuminate eternal conflicts at the heart of human existence: most especially our desire for self-expression and self-fulfilment, as against the constraints of morality and human laws.
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  • Publisher: Wordsworth Editions Ltd
  • Published: 29 September 2000
  • Format: Paperback 528 pages
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  • Categories: Classics | Historical Fiction
  • ISBN 13: 9781840224306 ISBN 10: 1840224304
  • Sales rank: 2,215

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• Crime and Punishment is one of the greatest and most readable novels ever written. From the beginning we are locked into the frenzied consciousness of Raskolnikov who, against his better instincts, is inexorably drawn to commit a brutal double murder. From that moment on, we share his conflicting feelings of self-loathing and pride, of contempt for and need of others, and of terrible despair and hope of redemption: and, in a remarkable transformation of the detective novel, we follow his agonised efforts to probe and confront both his own motives for, and the consequences of, his crime. The result is a tragic novel built out of a series of supremely dramatic scenes that illuminate the eternal conflicts at the heart of human existence: most especially our desire for self-expression and self-fulfilment, as against the constraints of morality and human laws; and our agonised awareness of the world's harsh injustices and of our own mortality, as against the mysteries of divine justice and immortality.