Prestuplenie i nakazanie (Crime and Punishment) Russian edition

by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Overview

Crime and Punishment focuses on the mental anguish and moral dilemmas of Rodion Romanovich Raskolnikov, an impoverished ex-student in St. Petersburg who formulates and executes a plan to kill an unscrupulous pawnbroker for her money. Raskolnikov argues that with the pawnbroker's money he can perform good deeds to counterbalance the crime, while ridding the world of a worthless parasite. He also commits this murder to test his own hypothesis that some people are naturally capable of, and even have the right to, do such things.

ATTENTION: In Russian -- free sample is corrupted, but full e-book contains embedded fonts, so you will see readable text. Tested on Nook and Nook for PC.

Product Details

BN ID:	2940012131270
Publisher:	Arpine Babloyan
Publication date:	02/02/2011
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
File size:	687 KB
Language:	Russian

About the Author

Fyodor Mikhaylovich Dostoyevsky (11 November 1821 – 9 February 1881) was a Russian writer and essayist, best known for his novels Crime and Punishment, The Idiot and The Brothers Karamazov.
Dostoyevsky's literary works explored human psychology in the troubled political, social and spiritual context of 19th-century Russian society. Considered by many as a founder or precursor of 20th-century existentialism, Dostoyevsky wrote, with the embittered voice of the anonymous "underground man", Notes from Underground (1864), which was called the "best overture for existentialism ever written" by Walter Kaufmann. Dostoyevsky is often acknowledged by critics as one of the greatest and most prominent psychologists in world literature.