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Fyodor Dostoevsky "Crime and Punishment"
1966 Easton Press, Norwalk, CT.
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Fine. Free of markings, writings, or stampings. No attached bookplates or signs of any removed. The binding is uniform and tight, pages clean, and with no scuffs, marks, dents, bruises, etc. This book stands out as having had exemplary care. A wonderful bright clean copy.
TRANSLATED FROM THE RUSSIAN BY CONSTANCE GARNETT
ILLUSTRATED WITH WOOD ENGRAVINGS BY FRITZ EICHENBERG
COLLECTOR'S EDITION , 485 pages.
HANDSOME BLACK MOROCCAN LEATHER BINDING
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COPYRIGHT YEAR 1866
Crime and Punishment is a novel written by Russian author Fyodor Dostoyevsky. First published in a journal named The Russian Messenger, it appeared in twelve monthly installments in 1866, and was later published as a novel. Along with Leo Tolstoy's War and Peace, the novel is considered one of the best-known and most influential Russian novels of all time.
Crime and Punishment focuses on Raskolnikov, an impoverished student who formulates a plan to kill and rob a hated pawnbroker, thereby solving his money problems and at the same time ridding the world of her evil. Exhibiting some symptoms of megalomania, Raskolnikov thinks himself a gifted man, similar to Napoleon. As an extraordinary man, he feels justified in his decision to murder, since he exists outside the moral constraints that affect "ordinary" people. However, immediately after the crime, Raskolnikov becomes ill, and is troubled by the memory of his actions. Crime and Punishment portrays Raskolnikov's gradual realization of his crime and his growing desire to confess. Moreover, Raskolnikov's attempts to protect his sister Dunia from unappealing suitors, and also his unexpected love for a destitute prostitute demonstrate Raskolnikov's longing for redemption.
Dostoevsky began work on Crime and Punishment in the summer of 1865. He was in serious financial difficulty from gambling, and also from his efforts to help the family of his brother Mikhail, who had died in early 1864; the author owed large sums of money to debtors. He signed an agreement with the editor Katkov having explained to him that the novel was to be about a young man who kills a pawnbroker in cold blood, and then tries both to escape and to defend his act, but finally confesses.
Dostoevsky had, at this point, two ideas for novels: one was to be called "The Drunkards", and chronicled the "problem of drunkenness"; the other was based around the notion of a "psychological account of a crime". However, the two works soon merged into one; indeed, the Marmaledov family in Crime and Punishment were first conceived with the intention of being characters in "The Drunkards".
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