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Product Identifiers
PublisherBarnes & Noble, Incorporated
ISBN-101593080816
ISBN-139781593080815
eBay Product ID (ePID)43999918
Product Key Features
Book TitleCrime and Punishment
Number of Pages576 Pages
LanguageEnglish
Publication Year2007
TopicClassics, Literary
GenreFiction
AuthorConstance Garnett
Book SeriesBarnes and Noble Classics Ser.
FormatTrade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height1.4 in
Item Length8 in
Item Width5.2 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceTrade
Notes byYuffa, Elina
Dewey Edition22
Dewey Decimal891.73
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Haunted by vivid hallucinations and the torments of his conscience, he seeks relief from his terror and moral isolation--first from Sonia, the pious streetwalker who urges him to confess, then in a tense game of cat and mouse with Porfiry, the brilliant magistrate assigned to the murder investigation. A &&LItour de force&&L/I of suspense, &&LICrime and Punishment&&L/I delineates the theories and motivations that underlie a bankrupt morality. &&LBPriscilla Meyer &&L/Bis Professor of Russian Language and Literature at Wesleyan University, in Middletown, Connecticut. 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Here are some of the remarkable features of &&LIBarnes & Noble Classics&&L/I: New introductions commissioned from todays top writers and scholars Biographies of the authors Chronologies of contemporary historical, biographical, and cultural events Footnotes and endnotes Selective discussions of imitations, parodies, poems, books, plays, paintings, operas, statuary, and films inspired by the work Comments by other famous authors Study questions to challenge the readers viewpoints and expectations Bibliographies for further reading Indices & Glossaries, when appropriate All editions are beautifully designed and are printed to superior specifications; some include illustrations of historical interest. &&LIBarnes & Noble Classics &&L/Ipulls together a constellation of influences--biographical, historical, and literary--to enrich each readers understanding of these enduring works. 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Haunted by vivid hallucinations and the torments of his conscience, he seeks relief from his terror and moral isolation--first from Sonia, the pious streetwalker who urges him to confess, then in a tense game of cat and mouse with Porfiry, the brilliant magistrate assigned to the murder investigation. A &&LItour de force&&L/I of suspense, &&LICrime and Punishment&&L/I delineates the theories and motivations that underlie a bankrupt morality. &&LBPriscilla Meyer &&L/Bis Professor of Russian Language and Literature at Wesleyan University, in Middletown, Connecticut. She published &&LIFind What the Sailor Has Hidden&&L/I, the first monograph on Vladimir Nabokov's &&LIPale Fire&&L/I, and edited the first English translation of Andrei Bitov's collection of short stories, &&LILife in Windy Weather&&L/I., The first of Dostoevsky's masterworks, Crime and Punishment presents the powerful story of Raskolnikov, who reasons that intellectually "superior" men like himself can and must transcend conventional moral law. To test his theory, he devises the perfect murder. What follows is a nightmare world of bitterness and torment, and one of the most gripping crime stories of all time., &&LICrime and Punishment&&L/I, by &&LBFyodor Dostoevsky&&L/B, is part of the &&LIBarnes & Noble Classics&&L/I&&LI &&L/Iseries, which offers quality editions at affordable prices to the student and the general reader, including new scholarship, thoughtful design, and pages of carefully crafted extras. Here are some of the remarkable features of &&LIBarnes & Noble Classics&&L/I: New introductions commissioned from today's top writers and scholars Biographies of the authors Chronologies of contemporary historical, biographical, and cultural events Footnotes and endnotes Selective discussions of imitations, parodies, poems, books, plays, paintings, operas, statuary, and films inspired by the work Comments by other famous authors Study questions to challenge the reader's viewpoints and expectations Bibliographies for further reading Indices & Glossaries, when appropriate All editions are beautifully designed and are printed to superior specifications; some include illustrations of historical interest. &&LIBarnes & Noble Classics &&L/Ipulls together a constellation of influences--biographical, historical, and literary--to enrich each reader's understanding of these enduring works. Few authors have been as personally familiar with desperation as &&LSTRONGFyodor Dostoevsky&&L/B, and none have been so adept at describing it. &&LICrime and Punishment&&L/I--the novel that heralded the author's period of masterworks--tells the story of the poor and talented student Raskolnikov, a character of unparalleled psychological depth and complexity. Raskolnikov reasons that men like himself, by virtue of their intellectual superiority, can and must transcend societal law. To test his theory, he devises the perfect crime--the murder of a spiteful pawnbroker living in St. Petersburg. &&LBR &&LBRIn one of the most gripping crime stories of all time, Raskolnikov soon realizes the folly of his abstractions. Haunted by vivid hallucinations and the torments of his conscience, he seeks relief from his terror and moral isolation--first from Sonia, the pious streetwalker who urges him to confess, then in a tense game of cat and mouse with Porfiry, the brilliant magistrate assigned to the murder investigation. A &&LItour de force&&L/I of suspense, &&LICrime and Punishment&&L/I delineates the theories and motivations that underlie a bankrupt morality. &&LBPriscilla Meyer &&L/Bis Professor of Russian Language and Literature at Wesleyan University, in Middletown, Connecticut. She published &&LIFind What the Sailor Has Hidden&&L/I, the first monograph on Vladimir Nabokov's &&LIPale Fire&&L/I, and edited the first English translation of Andrei Bitov's collection of short stories, &&LILife in Windy Weather&&L/I.
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