Fyodor Dostoyevsky
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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 excrutiating suspense, its atmospheric vividness, and its profundity of characterization and vision, is almost...
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English
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Determined to overreach his humanity and assert his untrammeled individual will, Raskolnikov, and 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.
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Liveright Publishing Corporation, a division of W. W. Norton and Company
Pub. Date
2018.
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English
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Presents a new translation of Dostoyevsky's classic novel about an impoverished Russian student who murders a miserly landlady, a crime that has severe repercussions on his life and his family as he battles his conscience.
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Pandora's Box
Pub. Date
2024
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English
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If you were looking for the definitive Christmas anthology, consider yourself lucky, because you just found it! This book is everything you want Christmas to be — loving, warm and celebratory. Timeless and adorable, beautifully designed, "The Big Book of Christmas" is a great big stocky book — stuffed with novels, novellas, short stories, poems, carols and songs. Inside you'll find: ยท Novels, novellas and short stories from Charles Dickens,...