02714cam a2200397 i 4500 2790129256 TxAuBib 20260623120000.0 230810s2023||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 9781840228564 hardcover 1840228563 hardcover (OCoLC)1400080677 TxAuBib rda eng rus Dostoyevsky, Fyodor, 1821-1881, author. Crime and punishment / Fyodor Dostoevsky ; translation by Constance Garnett. Collector's edition. Stansted : Wordsworth Editions Limited, 2023. ©2023. 843 pages ; 19 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier Wordsworth collector's editions Collector's editions (Wordsworth Editions Limited) Translated from the Russian. Dostoevsky's account of the brutal murder of a simple old woman (and her unlucky sister) by a disillusioned young intellectual is at once a gripping intellectual mystery and a compelling detective story as well as an exceptionally probing and thought-provoking work full of philosophical, political, and theological dimensions. "Crime and Punishment is one of the greatest and most readable novels ever written. From the beginning we are locked into the frenzied consciousness of Raskolnikov who, against his better instincts, is inexorably drawn to commit a brutal double murder. From that moment on, we share his conflicting feelings of self-loathing and pride, of contempt for and need of others, and of terrible despair and hope of redemption: and, in a remarkable transformation of the detective novel, we follow his agonized efforts to probe and confront both his own motives for, and the consequences of, his crime. The result is a tragic novel built out of a series of supremely dramatic scenes that illuminate the eternal conflicts at the heart of human existence: most especially our desire for self-expression and self-fulfillment, as against the constraints of morality and human laws; and our agonized awareness of the world's harsh injustices and of our own mortality, as against the mysteries of divine justice and immortality."--Publisher. 20260623. Murder Russia (Federation) Saint Petersburg Fiction. Classic. Psychological fiction. fast Garnett, Constance, 1861-1946, Translator. Wordsworth collector's editions. Collector's editions (Wordsworth Editions Limited.)