{"product_id":"crime-and-punishment-newly-translated-and-fully-annotated-9781847498830","title":"Crime and Punishment : Newly Translated and Fully Annotated","description":"\u003ch3\u003eAuthor: Dostoevsky, Fyodor\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003ch4\u003eClassic fiction (pre c 1945)\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003ch5\u003ePublished on 4 July 2022 by Alma Books Ltd (Alma Classics) in the United Kingdom as part of 'the Alma Classics Evergreens' series.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePaperback \/ softback | 576 pages\u003cbr\u003e128 x 197 x 39 | 432g\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/h5\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePoverty-stricken\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eand cut off from society, former law student Rodion Romanovich Raskolnikov\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eleads a desolate life in a dreary little room in St Petersburg. Having\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eabandoned all hopes of sustaining himself through work, he now obsesses over\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ethe idea of changing his fortunes through an act of extreme violence: the\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ekilling of an elderly pawnbroker. His mind baulks at the horror of his plan,\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ebut when he hears that his sister Dunya is about to agree to a loveless\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003emarriage in order to escape the advances of her employer, his disgust for the\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eworld becomes unbounded, and his feelings of rebellion and revenge push him\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ecloser and closer to the edge of the precipice.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e  A masterpiece of psychological insight, Dostoevsky’s 1866 novel features\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003esome of its author’s most memorable characters – from the temperamental\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eprotagonist Raskolnikov to the amoral sensualist Svidrigailov and the immoral\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003elawyer Luzhin. Presented here in a sparkling new translation by Roger\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCockerell, Crime and Punishment is a towering work in nineteenth-century\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eRussian fiction and a landmark of world literature.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Dostoevsky, Fyodor","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":55980052775290,"sku":"9781847498830","price":8.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0373\/4125\/files\/9781847498830.jpg?v=1759401236","url":"https:\/\/belfastbooks.co.uk\/products\/crime-and-punishment-newly-translated-and-fully-annotated-9781847498830","provider":"Belfast Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}