Crime and Punishment (Oxford World Classics)

Author(s): Fyodor Dostoevsky; Nicolas Pasternak Slater (Translator); Sarah J. Young (Editor)

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'One death, in exchange for thousands of lives - it's simple arithmetic!'A new translation of Dostoevsky's epic masterpiece, Crime and Punishment (1866). The impoverished student Raskolnikov decides to free himself from debt by killing an old moneylender, an act he sees as elevating himself above conventional morality. Like Napoleon he will assert his will and his crimewill be justified by its elimination of 'vermin' for the sake of the greater good. But Raskolnikov is torn apart by fear, guilt, and a growing conscience under the influence of his love for Sonya. Meanwhile the police detective Porfiry is on his trial. It is a powerfully psychological novel, inwhich the St Petersburg setting, Dostoevsky's own circumstances, and contemporary social problems all play their part.


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Nicolas Pasternak Slater has translated several works by Boris Pasternak, most recently The Family Correspondence, 1921-1960 (Hoover Press, 2010). For Oxford World's Classics he has translated Lermontov's A Hero of Our Time and Tolstoy's The Death of Ivan Ilyich and Other Stories. Sarah J. Young is Senior Lecturer in Russian at the School of Slavonic and East European Studies, University College London, where she teaches and researches nineteenth- and twentieth-century Russian literature, culture and thought. She is the author of Dostoevsky's 'The Idiot' and the Ethical Foundations of Narrative (Anthem Press, 2004), and co-editor of Dostoevsky on the Threshold of Other Worlds (Bramcote Press, 2006).

General Fields

  • : 9780198709701
  • : Oxford University Press
  • : Oxford University Press
  • : 0.7
  • : May 2018
  • : 223mm X 151mm X 45mm
  • : United Kingdom
  • : October 2017
  • : books

Special Fields

  • : Fyodor Dostoevsky; Nicolas Pasternak Slater (Translator); Sarah J. Young (Editor)
  • : Fyodor Dostoevsky; Nicolas Pasternak Slater (Translator); Sarah J. Young (Editor)
  • : 544
  • : 544
  • : 891.733
  • : 891.733
  • : English
  • : English
  • : 1710
  • : 1710
  • : Hardback
  • : Hardback