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CRIME AND PUNISHMENT - FYODOR DOSTOEVSKY TASCHE...

Poverty-stricken and cut off from society  former law student Rodion Romanovich Raskolnikov
leads a desolate life in a dreary little room in St Petersburg. Having abandoned all hopes of
sustaining himself through work  he now obsesses over the idea of changing his fortunes through
an act of extreme violence: the killing of an elderly pawnbroker. His mind baulks at the horror
of his plan  but when he hears that his sister Dunya is about to agree to a loveless marriage
in order to escape the advances of her employer  his disgust for the world becomes unbounded 
and his feelings of rebellion and revenge push him closer and closer to the edge of the
precipice. A masterpiece of psychological insight  Dostoevsky's 1866 novel features some of its
author's most memorable characters - from the temperamental protagonist Raskolnikov to the
amoral sensualist Svidrigailov and the immoral lawyer Luzhin. Presented here in a sparkling new
translation by Roger Cockerell  Crime and Punishment is a towering work in nineteenth-century
Russian fiction and a landmark of world literature.

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