Crime And Punishment [Hardcover]

Dostoevsky puts a poor former student in a St Petersburg attic, lets him talk himself into a theory that permits murder, and then follows what that theory does to him afterwards. The 512-page hardcover from Penguin Select Classics holds the complete novel. Most of the tension comes from conversation rather than concealment, since the investigating magistrate Porfiry Petrovich circles Raskolnikov in a series of interviews where almost nothing is stated outright. Around that duel the city itself presses in: tenements, stairwells, canals and heat, with a supporting cast of debtors, drunkards and relatives who make the moral argument concrete instead of abstract. What it brings to a collection: • Hardcover binding, 512 pages, Penguin Select Classics • The complete text of Dostoevsky's psychological novel • Built around interrogation scenes rather than a whodunnit plot • A standard title on Russian literature reading lists Aimed at readers of Russian fiction and anyone interested in moral philosophy told as story, published under Penguin Select Classics and available at Boipoka.