Mining the psychology of guilt and the vicissitudes of morality with staggering insight and power, Dostoyevsky's great masterpiece revolves around a tormented student who commits a senseless and random murder.
Dostoyevsky's great novel of damnation and redemption evokes a world where the lines between innocence and corruption, good and evil, blur. It tells the story of Raskolnikov, a destitute and desperate former student, who wanders through the slums of St Petersburg and commits a random murder without remorse or regret.
He imagines himself to be beyond conventional moral laws. But as he embarks on a dangerous game of cat and mouse with a police investigator, Raskolnikov is pursued by the growing voice of his conscience and finds the noose of his own guilt tightening around his neck.
Translated with an Introduction and notes by David Mcduff.
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
ISBN: 9780140449136
Number of pages: 720
Dimensions: 197 x 129 x 31 mm
Weight: 488 g
Language: English (Language of text), Russian (Original language of a translated text)
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"Dostoevsky that great psychologist" This book should be taught in psychology classes. Human consciousness and unconscious is examined in their full frailty in this novel. A crime is thought, planned and... More
A very interesting book that looks inside that mystical creature that is called Human. If you are interested in how people's minds work than it is a must read.
Beautiful edition of a real classic. It's a book one should read at least one in their lifetime. The binding is really pretty and is a lovely collectors item, or a gift for someone special.
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