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Mired in poverty, the student Raskolnikov nevertheless thinks well of himself. Of his pawnbroker he takes a different view, and in deciding to do away with her he sets in motion his own tragic downfall. Dostoyevsky's penetrating novel of an intellectual whose moral compass goes haywire, and the detective who hunts him down for his terrible crime, is a stunning psychological portrait, a thriller and a profound meditation on guilt and retribution.
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Novel by Fyodor Dostoyevsky, published in 1866 as Prestupleniye i nakazaniye. Dostoyevsky's first masterpiece, the novel is a psychological analysis of the poor student Raskolnikov, whose theory that humanitarian ends justify evil means leads him to murder a St. Petersburg pawnbroker. The act produces nightmarish guilt in Raskolnikov. The narrative's feverish, compelling tone follows the twists and turns of Raskolnikov's emotions and elaborates his struggle with his conscience and his mounting sense of horror as he wanders the city's hot, crowded streets. In prison, Raskolnikov comes to the realization that happiness cannot be achieved by a reasoned plan of existence but must be earned by suffering. The novel's status as a masterpiece is chiefly a result of its narrative intensity and its moving depiction of the recovery of a man's diseased spirit. -- The Merriam-Webster Encyclopedia of Literature --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
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Mired in poverty, the student Raskolnikov nevertheless thinks well of himself. Of his pawnbroker he takes a different view, and in deciding to do away with her he sets in motion his own tragic downfall. Dostoyevsky's penetrating novel of an intellectual whose moral compass goes haywire, and the detective who hunts him down for his terrible crime, is a stunning psychological portrait, a thriller and a profound meditation on guilt and retribution.
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Novel by Fyodor Dostoyevsky, published in 1866 as Prestupleniye i nakazaniye. Dostoyevsky's first masterpiece, the novel is a psychological analysis of the poor student Raskolnikov, whose theory that humanitarian ends justify evil means leads him to murder a St. Petersburg pawnbroker. The act produces nightmarish guilt in Raskolnikov. The narrative's feverish, compelling tone follows the twists and turns of Raskolnikov's emotions and elaborates his struggle with his conscience and his mounting sense of horror as he wanders the city's hot, crowded streets. In prison, Raskolnikov comes to the realization that happiness cannot be achieved by a reasoned plan of existence but must be earned by suffering. The novel's status as a masterpiece is chiefly a result of its narrative intensity and its moving depiction of the recovery of a man's diseased spirit. -- The Merriam-Webster Encyclopedia of Literature --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
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AT THE BEGINNING of July, during an extremely hot spell, towards evening, a young man left the closest he rented from tenants in S-y Lane, walked out to the street, and slowly, as if indecisively, headed for the K-n Bridge. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
little old crone, flushed spots, flannel shawl, thirty kopecks, yellow pass, memorial meal, twenty kopecks, cinq sous, fifty kopecks, three roubles, hundred roubles, ten roubles Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Katerina Ivanovna, Pyotr Petrovich, Pulcheria Alexandrovna, Avdotya Romanovna, Sofya Semyonovna, Porfiry Petrovich, Marfa Petrovna, Amalia Ivanovna, Rodion Romanych, Rodion Romanovich, Andrei Semyonovich, Ilya Petrovich, Dmitri Prokofych, Katerma Ivanovna, Nikodim Fomich, Arkady Ivanovich, Alyona Ivanovna, Semyon Zakharych, Afanasy Ivanovich, Nlarfa Petrovna, Amalia Ludwigovna, Little Neva, Praskovya Pavlovna, Avdotva Romanovna, Periodical Discourse New!
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