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Crime And Punishment (Hardcover, Reissued New Ed)
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Crime And Punishment (Hardcover, Reissued New Ed)
Series: Everyman's Library CLASSICS
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List price R450
Loot Price R351
Discovery Miles 3 510
You Save R99 (22%)
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Dostoevsky contends with Tolstoy for the title of being the
greatest Russian novelist. Although his work exhibits less
narrative drive than that of Tolstoy, he demonstrates immeasurably
greater psychological insight, especially into the minds of the
unbalanced. Crime and Punishment is a novel which can change the
reader's life. Unexpectedly readable, with occasional bizarre
humour, it takes a theme of great simplicity - Student Raskolnikov
kills a pawnbroker and her sister and is then torn apart by his
conscience - and endows it with extraordinary surprises, each one
more consistent with character than a more conventional solution
might have been. A clash of very different people thrown together
in an unusual circumstance produces, at length, a sense of
inevitability and resolution, and therefore of quite unusual power
and compassion. Strongly recommended to all cocksure murderers and
self-satisfied policemen, among others. (Kirkus UK)
Dostoesky's drama of sin, guilt and redemption transmutes the
sordid story of an old woman's murder by a desperate student into
the nineteenth century's profoundest and most compelling
philosophical novel. Grim in theme and setting, the book
nevertheless seduces by its combination of superbly drawn
characters, narrative brilliance and manic comedy.
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