In a timeless story of justice, morality, and redemption, an impoverished Russian student murders a miserly landlady, a crime that has severe repercussions on his life and his family as he battles his conscience. Reissue.
A desperate young man plans the perfect crime -- the murder of a despicable pawnbroker, an old women no one loves and no one will mourn. Is it not just,...
Declared a PBS “Great American Read,” Michael Katz’s sparkling new translation gives new life to the story of Raskolnikov, an impoverished student who sees himself as extraordinary and therefore free to commit crimes—even ...
Why do the dark recesses of the human soul endlessly fascinate us? Dostoevsky's classic, celebrated tale of motive and murder, Crime and Punishment is perhaps the greatest and most insightful crime story ever written.
"Crime and Punishment is a novel by the Russian author Fyodor Dostoevsky. Crime and Punishment is considered the first great novel of his mature period of writing.
"Power is given only to him who dares to stoop and take it ... one must have the courage to dare." ― Fyodor Dostoevsky, Crime and Punishment Crime and Punishment (1867) by Fyodor Dostoevsky recounts the story of Rodion Raskolnikov, a ...
This edition is printed on premium acid-free paper, is translated by Constance Garnett, and includes an Introduction by Nathan B. Fagin.
Appendixes cover careers in criminal justice, Web resources, and professional organizations. A lengthy bibliography lists relevant works."--"The Best of the Best Reference Sources," American Libraries, May 2003.
Crime and Punishment is considered the first great novel of his "mature" period of writing.Crime and Punishment focuses on the mental anguish and moral dilemmas of Rodion Raskolnikov, an impoverished ex-student in Saint Petersburg who ...
This translation has been made from the Russian text of the Soviet Academy of Sciences edition, volumes six and seven (Leningrad, 1973). Quotations from Dostoevsky's letters and notebooks in the...
David B. Wolcott, Tom Head ... Source: U.S. Congress, the Marihuana Tax Act of 1937, quoted in the Schaffer Library of Drug Policy. Available online at URL: http://www.druglibrary.org/schaffer/ hemp/taxact/mjtaxact.htm.