Crime and punishment
Subtitle: the Coulson translation, backgrounds and sources, essays in criticism
By: Feodor Dostoevsky ; edited by George Gibian.
Contributors: Coulson, Jessie Senior, 1903-; Gibian, George.
Edition: 3rd ed.
Series: A Norton critical edition
Publisher: W.W. Norton
Published: 1989
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng; rus
Number of pages: 694
Description: Raskolnikov commits murder. He then must deal both with the police, and his own guilty conscience. Determined to overreach his humanity and assert his untrammelled individual will, Raskolnikov, an impoverished student living in the St. Petersburg of the Tsars, commits an act of murder and theft and sets into motion a story which, for its excruciating suspense, its atmospheric vividness, and its profundity of characterization and vision, is almost unequaled in the literatures of the world. The best known of Dostoevsky's masterpieces, Crime and Punishment can bear any amount of rereading without losing a drop of its power over our imagination.
Notes: Bibliography: p. [693]-694.
Translation of: Prestuplenie i nakazanie.