{"product_id":"crime-and-punishment-by-fyodor-dostoyevsky","title":"Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky","description":"\u003cspan\u003e'A truly great translation . . .\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThis English version really is better' - A. N. Wilson, The SpectatorTIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT BOOKS OF THE YEAR 2014This acclaimed new translation of Dostoyevsky's 'psychological record of a crime' gives his dark masterpiece of murder and pursuit a renewed vitality, expressing its jagged, staccato urgency and fevered atmosphere as never before.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eRaskolnikov, a destitute and desperate former student, wanders alone through the slums of St. Petersburg, deliriously imagining himself above society's laws. But when he commits a random murder, only suffering ensues.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eEmbarking on a dangerous game of cat and mouse with a suspicious police investigator, Raskolnikov finds the noose of his own guilt tightening around his neck. Only Sonya, a downtrodden prostitute, can offer the chance of redemption. Fyodor Dostoevsky (1821-1881) was born in Moscow and made his name in 1846 with the novella Poor Folk.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eHe spent several years in prison in Siberia as a result of his political activities, an experience which formed the basis of The House of the Dead. In later life, he fell in love with a much younger woman and developed a ruinous passion for roulette. His subsequent great novels include Notes from Underground, Crime and Punishment, The Idiot, Demons and The Brothers Karamazov.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eOliver Ready is Research Fellow in Russian Society and Culture at St Antony's College, Oxford. He is general editor of the anthology, The Ties of Blood: Russian Literature from the 21st Century (2008), and Consultant Editor for Russia, Central and Eastern Europe at the Times Literary Supplement.\u003c\/span\u003e","brand":"The Week Bookshop","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54038002008340,"sku":"oyq1789766046687","price":9.33,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1011\/7627\/9316\/files\/crime-and-punishment-by-fyodor-dostoyevsky_1.jpg?v=1789766056","url":"https:\/\/straphemfit.shop\/products\/crime-and-punishment-by-fyodor-dostoyevsky","provider":"My Store","version":"1.0","type":"link"}