Fyodor Dostoyevsky's seminal classic, now back in a beautiful hardcover edition designed by Coralie Bickford-Smith. Nominated as one of America’s best-loved novels by PBS’s The Great
Crime and Punishment focuses on the mental anguish and moral dilemmas of Rodion Raskolnikov, an impoverished ex-student in St. Petersburg who formulates and executes a plan to kill an unscrupulous paw
Originally published in 1951, this book contains the stressed Russian text of Dostoyevsky's masterpiece Crime and Punishment. The Russian Edition of the Y.M.C.A. Press, Paris, is used as a basis for this edition. This book will be of use to students of the Russian Classics.
"The connection between these works is unmistakable, as is their direct relation to Dostoevsky's life—sensational, harrowing, and frenzied." —From the Introduction by Ralph E. Matlow @TweetsFro