Crime and Punishment

Crime and Punishment (1866) is the story of a murder committed on principle, of a killer who wishes by his action to set himself outside and above society. A novel of great physical and psychological tension, pervaded by Dostoevsky's sinister evocation of St Petersburg, it also has moments of wild humour. Dostoevsky's own harrowing experiences mark the novel. He had himself undergone interrogation and trial, and was condemned to death, a sentence commuted at the last moment to penal servitude. In prison he was particularly impressed by one hardened murderer who seemed to have attained a spiritual equilibrium beyond good and evil: yet witnessing the misery of other convicts also engendered in Dostoevsky a belief in the Christian idea of salvation through suffering.

ISBN 0393956237   Pages 704 ISBN13 9780393956238 (What's this?)   Volumes 1 Publisher WW Norton & Co   Weight (grammes) 477 Imprint WW Norton & Co   Language English Format Paperback   Published in New York Publication date 24 May 1989   Height (mm) 11 Non-book description viii, 694 p. :   Width (mm) 32 Library of Congress PG3326.P7   Spine width (mm) 21 DEWEY 891.733   Academic level General, Undergraduate, Postgraduate, Professional / Scholarly DEWEY edition DC21

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