Penguin Classics Crime and Punishment
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Categories: Books, Literature & Fiction, History & Criticism


PENGUIN GROUP

Dimensions: 4.42 x 1.35 x 7.13 inches
ISBN-13: 978-0141192802
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0141192801
Publisher: Penguin Classic
Print length: 720 pages
Publication date: April 29, 2014
subtitle: Paperback – International Edition, April 29, 2014
author: Fyodor Dostoevsky Oliver Ready
review: Editorial Reviews About the Author Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky was born in Moscow in 1821. His debut, the epistolary novella Poor Folk (1846), made his name. In 1849 he was arrested for involvement with the politically subversive 'Petrashevsky circle' and until 1854 he lived in a convict prison in Omsk, Siberia. From this experience came The House of the Dead (1860-2). In 1860 he began the journal Vremya (Time). Already married, he fell in love with one of his contributors, Appollinaria Suslova, eighteen years his junior, and developed a ruinous passion for roulette. After the death of his first wife, Maria, in 1864, Dostoyevsky completed Notes from Underground and began work towards Crime and Punishment (1866). The major novels of his late period are The Idiot (1868), Demons (1871-2) and The Brothers Karamazov (1879-80). He died in 1881. Oliver Ready is Research Fellow in Russian Society and Culture at St Antony's College, Oxford. He is general editor of the anthology, The Ties of Blood: Russian Literature from the 21st Century (2008), and Consultant Editor for Russia, Central and Eastern Europe at the Times Literary Supplement.