Crime and Punishment (1866)

by Fyodor Dostoevsky

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This book is so anxiety inducing I think it gave me an ulcer. (

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Katie80 | Oct 8, 2018 |

Un libro de Dostoyevsky que no solo habla de los grandes problemas humanos como acostumbra pero que ademas tiene trama y que te mantiene en vilo (por la mayor parte).

El libro sigue principalmente los pensamientos del protagonista y sus cambios de humor. En ese sentido es muy psicologico y muy Dostoyevsky. Pero hay un asesinato y una investigacion criminal que forman la trama principal. (

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trusmis | Sep 28, 2018 |

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justagirlwithabook | Aug 1, 2018 |

O mais impressionante nesse livro é a influência que este exerceu na obra de Nietzsche, assim como Ródia, o filósofo é um produto do seu tempo. Crime e Castigo é quase perfeito, se não fosse aquele fatídico último capítulo do epílogo, que evidentemente é belamente escrito, mas que põe por terra tudo que havia de mais brilhante na personagem principal. (

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Adriana_Scarpin | Jun 12, 2018 |

so much there; duh (

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Author name	Role	Type of author	Work?	Status
Dostoevsky, Fyodor	—	primary author	all editions	confirmed
Björkegren, Hans	Translator	secondary author	some editions	confirmed
Borja, Corinne	Illustrator	secondary author	some editions	confirmed
Borja, Robert	Illustrator	secondary author	some editions	confirmed
Brockway, Harry	Illustrator	secondary author	some editions	confirmed
Brodal, Jan	Translator	secondary author	some editions	confirmed
Canon, Raymond R.	Introduction	secondary author	some editions	confirmed
Coulson, Jessie	Translator	secondary author	some editions	confirmed
Eggink, Clara	Editor	secondary author	some editions	confirmed
Eichenberg, Fritz	Illustrator	secondary author	some editions	confirmed
Garnett, Constance	Translator	secondary author	some editions	confirmed
Geier, Swetlana	Translator	secondary author	some editions	confirmed
Guidall, George	Narrator	secondary author	some editions	confirmed
Hoffmann, Richard	Translator	secondary author	some editions	confirmed
Hollo, J. A.	Translator	secondary author	some editions	confirmed
Jullian, Philippe	Illustrator	secondary author	some editions	confirmed
Katzer, Julius	Translator	secondary author	some editions	confirmed
Kropotkin, Alexandra	Translator	secondary author	some editions	confirmed
Kuukasjärvi, Olli	Translator	secondary author	some editions	confirmed
Manger, Hermien	Translator	secondary author	some editions	confirmed
Meijer, Jan	Translator	secondary author	some editions	confirmed
Meyer, Priscilla	Introduction	secondary author	some editions	confirmed
Pampaloni, Geno	—	secondary author	some editions	confirmed
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Vuori, M.	Translator	secondary author	some editions	confirmed

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The Harvard Classics Shelf of Fiction [20 Volume Set] by Charles William Eliot

Crime and Punishment [Norton Critical Edition, 3rd ed.] by Fyodor Dostoevsky

Romanzi vol. II: Delitto e castigo - L'idiota by Fedor Mikhaïlovitch Dostoïevski

Grandi romanzi by Fëdor Dostoevskij

I grandi romanzi russi: Nuove traduzioni by Fëdor Dostoevskij

The Continental Classics (Volume XVIII, Mystery Tales) by Alexander Pushkin

Contains

Crime and Punishment (2/2) by Fedor Mikhaïlovitch Dostoïevski

Crime and Punishment (1/2) by Fedor Mikhaïlovitch Dostoïevski

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Crime and Punishment (Illustrated Classics): A Graphic Novel by Fyodor Dostoevsky

Crime and Punishment: Level 6 (Penguin Longman Penguin Readers) by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Classics Illustrated: Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Crime and Punishment by Osamu Tezuka

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Masterpiece comics by R. Sikoryak

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Rock Star's Rainbow by Kevin Glavin

Has as a commentary on the text

Crime and Punishment [Norton Critical Edition, 1st ed.] by Feodor Dostoevsky

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CliffsNotes on Dostoyevsky's Crime and Punishment by James L. Roberts

Spark Notes Crime and Punishment by Etienne Benson

Fyodor Dostoevsky's Crime and Punishment (Barron's Book Notes) by Virginia B. Morris

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Series (with order)

Canonical title

Crime and Punishment

Original title

Преступление и наказание

Prestuplenie i nakazanie

Alternative titles

Original publication date

1866 (serial)

1867 (book)

People/Characters

Important places

St. Petersburg, Russia

Haymarket, St. Petersburg, Russia

Stolyarny Lane, St. Petersburg, Russia

104 Griboedova Canal, St. Petersburg, Russia

Yusupov Gardens, St. Petersburg, Russia

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Crime and Punishment in Suburbia (2000 ∙ IMDb)

Crime and Punishment (1935 ∙ IMDb)

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BBC's Big Read (Best loved novel, 2003, No 60)

Prix Langlois de l'Académie française (Pierre Pascal, 1964)

1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die (2006/2008/2010/2012 Edition)

Guardian 1000 (Crime)

ALA Outstanding Books for the College Bound (1999.5|Fiction, 1999)

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Epigraph

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On an exceptionally hot evening early in July a young man came out of the garret in which he lodged in S. Place and walked slowly, as though in hesitation, towards K. bridge. (Garnett translation)

Toward the end of a sultry afternoon early in July a young man came out of his little room in Stolyarny Lane and turned slowly and somewhat irresolutely in the direction of Kamenny Bridge. (Coulson translation)

On a very hot evening at the beginning of July a young man left his little room at the top of a house in Carpenter Lane, went out into the street, and, as though unable to make up his mind, walked slowly in the direction of Kokushkin Bridge.

At the beginning of July, during an extremely hot spell, towards evening, a young man left the closet he rented from tenants in S____y Lane, walked out to the street, and slowly, as if indecisively, headed for the K______n Bridge. (Pevear and Volokhonsky translation)

In het begin van juli, het was tegen de avond en bijzonder warm, verliet een jongeman het kamertje dat hij aan de S-steeg in onderhuur bewoonde, en begaf zich traag, besluiteloos bijna, in de richting van de K-brug.

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Disambiguation notice

The original Russian title is “Преступление и наказание”.

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Woolf, Virginia

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Franklin Library

Everyman's Library New Series (35)

De Russische Bibliotheek (1983)

Barnes and Noble Classics

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Russian

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Student with an axe:
Napoleon or madman?
Siberian gaol.

(Michael.Rimmer)

Good boy gone bad in

this novel: comic version

removes most drama.

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Young murderer
Meets pious prostitute
No hilarity
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Amazon.com Product Description (ISBN 0553211757, Mass Market Paperback)

A desperate young man plans the perfect crime -- the murder of a despicable pawnbroker, an old women no one loves and no one will mourn. Is it not just, he reasons, for a man of genius to commit such a crime, to transgress moral law -- if it will ultimately benefit humanity? So begins one of the greatest novels ever written: a powerful psychological study, a terrifying murder mystery, a fascinating detective thriller infused with philosophical, religious and social commentary. Raskolnikov, an impoverished student living in a garret in the gloomy slums of St. Petersburg, carries out his grotesque scheme and plunges into a hell of persecution, madness and terror. Crime And Punishment takes the reader on a journey into the darkest recesses of the criminal and depraved mind, and exposes the soul of a man possessed by both good and evil ... a man who cannot escape his own conscience.

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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.… (more)

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