Crime and Punishment
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| Rating | : | 4.80 (615 Votes) |
| Asin | : | B00BSGKLUY |
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| Number of Pages | : | 458 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2013-12-07 |
| Language | : | English |
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Check the Publisher of this book before you buy Crime and Punishment is one great novel. However, we have a bit of misleading marketing going on here. Make sure you're buying the version you think you're buying before you order. "Crime and Punishment" published by General Books LLC is a poor quality scanned in version. If you do the "Look Inside" thing on this book, you'll see the inside of another version of the book, NOT the one you will receive.To give you a few quotes from the publishers website: "We created your book using OCR software with up to 3,500 ch. "Amazon needs to start recognizing the difference in translations" according to Daniel J. Moriarty. This is not the version of the book I clicked on! When you look at the (paperback) edition of Crime and Punishment translated by Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky, it says right below it, "Start reading Crime and Punishment on your Kindle" and also lists the different versions available - paperback, hardcover, etc. - and includes a Kindle Edition. But when you click on either, you get this, which is a completely different translation. Pevear and Volokhonsky have been widely praised, their translations now con. Brilliant Book I chose to read this book in my quest to read all those books I was supposed to read in school and never did. I was expecting a long boring book, but I was so wrong!There were only a couple parts (at the beginning) that were kinda slow, the rest was pure genius. The book had a lot more action than I expected, an amazing story line, great characters, and some of the best writing I've read. I started this book expecting to dislike it, and now it's my second favorite book I've ever read.If you have a kindle and are l
This edition of the classic is translated by Constance Garnett, and includes a table of contents.. Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky is regarded as one of the finest Russian authors of the modern era, and Crime and Punishment is considered one of his greatest works
Of his pawnbroker he takes a different view, and in deciding to do away with her he sets in motion his own tragic downfall. Mired in poverty, the student Raskolnikov nevertheless thinks well of himself. Dostoyevsky's penetrating novel of an intellectual whose moral compass goes haywire, and the detective who hunts him down for his terrible crime, is a stunning psychological portrait, a thriller and a profound meditation on guilt and retribution.