Crime and Punishment (Wordsworth Classics)

by Fydor Dostoevsky | Literature & Fiction | This book has not been rated.
ISBN: 1853262005 Global Overview for this book
Registered by ackamonieus of Edmonton, Alberta Canada on 8/30/2004
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Journal Entry 1 by ackamonieus from Edmonton, Alberta Canada on Monday, August 30, 2004
"Crime and Punishment is based on Dostoevsky's own terrifying experiences of summary justice and the cruel penal system of Tsarist Russia. It is a dark tale set in the dingy tenenments, backstreets and bars of pre-Revolutionary St. Petersburg and concerns the actions of a murderer - Raskolnikov - who, setting himself in the role of superman of Napoleonic proportions, decides to commit homicide as a matter of principle. Thus the scene is set for an epic story of careful criminal investigation, Roskolinikov's entrapment in the tentacle s of his own conscience, and the possibility of his eventual salvation through punishment and suffering."

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