Crime and Punishment (The Unabridged Garnett Translation)

Fyodor Dostoevsky

Sep 2013 · e-artnow

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This carefully crafted ebook: “Crime and Punishment (The Unabridged Garnett Translation)” is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents. This is the version based on the Unabridged Garnett Translation. Crime and Punishment is a novel by Fyodor Dostoyevsky, first published in 1866. It is the second of Dostoyevsky's full-length novels following his return from ten years of exile in Siberia. Crime and Punishment focuses on the mental anguish and moral dilemmas of Rodion Raskolnikov, an impoverished ex-student in St. Petersburg who formulates and executes a plan to kill an unscrupulous pawnbroker for her cash. Raskolnikov argues that with the pawnbroker's money he can perform good deeds to counterbalance the crime, while ridding the world of a worthless vermin. He also commits this murder to test his own hypothesis that some people are naturally capable of such things, and even have the right to do them. Several times throughout the novel, Raskolnikov justifies his actions by connecting himself mentally with Napoleon Bonaparte, believing that murder is permissible in pursuit of a higher purpose. Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoyevsky ( 1821 – 1881) was a Russian novelist, short story writer, essayist and philosopher. Dostoyevsky's literary works explore human psychology in the context of the troubled political, social, and spiritual atmosphere of 19th-century Russia. Many literary critics rate him as one of the greatest and most prominent psychologists in world literature.

Ratings and reviews

Such a dull read. Really can't understand what anyone sees in this book. Too much time spent on characters and sub plots that just went no where. At parts it's difficult to even follow what is going on. There's even a translators note in this version commenting that the author forgot what time of the day the current setting was in. If the author doesn't even know, how can we the reader?!

Fyodor Dostoevsky is one of my favourite authors.This is the first book of his that I have read and I can't believe the way he portrayed the characters with such emotion and detail.I personally do empathize with Rasolnikov. He is best example as to how over thinking can actually kill.

This is a classic for a reason. The depth of the characters is engaging and the story doesn't deviate from the main plot. The main point that Dostoevsky seems to make is that, regardless of your belief system, there are some immutable laws which cannot be broken except with intense internal suffering and conflict. Of course, if you persist in breaking those eternal laws, you eventually become desensitized to that internal conflict.