Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky, David McDuff (Translator)

Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky, David McDuff (Translator)'Crime? What crime? My killing a loathsome, harmful louse, a filthy old moneylender woman and you call that a crime?'Raskolnikov, a destitute and desperate former student, wanders through the slums of St Petersburg and commits a random murder without remorse or regret. He imagines himself to be a great man, a Napoleon: acting for a higher purpose beyond conventional moral law. But as he embarks on a dangerous game of cat and mouse with a suspicious

raunchy and funny

The basis of this book is a manuscript in Sanskrit which he obtained from India

social status

Irving calls Harry a 'retread'

the discoveries

family secrets and sexual double-dealing

in a brand new portable format

but his struggle for freedom brings about his destruction

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and famously described by the Irish critic Vivien Mercier as a play in which 'nothing happens

they learn to submit

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