Fyodor Dostoyevsky
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A desperate and impoverished student named Raskolnikov commits a murder, thinking he is above moral law, but eventually must confront his inner mind and consequences. This is an intense psychological study, terrifying murder mystery, and fascinating detective thriller, instilled with philosophical, religious and social commentary.
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Vintage classics volume 0
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Published to great acclaim and fierce controversy in 1866, Fyodor Dostoevskys Crime and Punishment has left an indelible mark on global literature and our modern world, and is still known worldwide as the quintessential Russian novel. Readers of all backgrounds have debated its historical, cultural, and spiritual dimensions, probing the moral and ethical dilemmas that Dostoevsky so brilliantly stages throughout his narrative. Yet, at its heart, this...
85) The gamblers
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English
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A team of professional card sharks set out to fleece a wealthy aristocrat of this savings and receive an I.O.U. in payment, which turns out to be worthless.
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The first anthology ever devoted entirely to Russian crime fiction—including works by Acunin, Chekhov, Dostoevsky, Gogol, Nabokov, Pushkin, and Tolstoy
Many of the greatest Russian authors, including Dostoevsky, Tolstoy, Chekhov, and Pushkin, produced crime and mystery fiction, a type of literature that was largely suppressed during the Soviet era because it did not glorify the state but, instead, gave individuals the significance that
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Russian
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Based on the novel by Fyodor Dostoevsky. Student Rodion Raskolnikov murders an old landlady and her sister to get away from his financial problems. However, his deed terrifies him and the investigation begins to close down on him. He meets a prostitute, Sonya, who convinces him to confess to the two murders. He is subsequently sentenced to punitive labor in Siberia, and Sonya follows him there.
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"In this interpretation of Dostoyevsky's classic, Raskolnikov is a starving young student, unable to pay his debt without the help of a despicable old pawnbroker. Overwhelmed by his poverty, he murders the old woman to erase his obligation, but no matter how he tries to rationalize his crime, he can't deny the consequences"--Container.
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Nineteen eighty-four: Winston Smith endures a squalid existence in totalitarian Oceania under the constant surveillance of Big Brother. When he starts an illegal love affair, he becomes the target of a brain-washing campaign to force him to conform.
Crime and punishment: A modern version of Dostoyevsky's classic of one man's search for the true meaning of his existence.
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"1950s Southern California is as far away from 19th-century Russia as you can get -- or is it? Robert Cole [is] a troubled young man with a troubling belief: exceptional people shouldn't have to pay for their crimes. After blacking out near the scene of a murder, Cole captures the attention of the police and proceeds to play a deadly cat-and-mouse game with a tenacious cop, a beautiful stranger and a family foe"--Container.