- Crime And Punishment By Fyodor Dostoyevsky | Philosophy, Crime & Psychological Depth | Iconic Novel Of Justice, Guilt & The Human Mind | Original Premium Paperback Edition

The book can feel slow in places, but the psychological depth makes it worth the effort. The characters feel painfully real, and the questions it raises about right and wrong stay with you long after finishing the book.A difficult, dark, but incredibly rewarding classic

This book is a heavy, brilliant deep dive into the human conscience. It is slow and dark, but it permanently changes how you view right and wrong. A must-read for mature youngsters and people who have suffered injustice silently! ❤️

A fine Copy of Dostoevsky's work. But it kinda didn't went good for me. When I recieved the pack it was all water damaged on top of that the wasn't even packed in anything but just box kan

Read it and form your own opinion!A psychological thriller keeps you on tenterhooks and guessing!Loved it!

Quality of the cover and the pages are good. Beware if you have an average english like me you'll need a dictionary because there are some words you wouldn't know the meaning of.

Page quality and everything is top notch

Book is good but the product is Dirty

A month back when I started reading this intense psychological thriller by the famous Russian writer Fyodor Dostoyevsky (1821-1881) little did I know that this work will recast my notions about crime as well as punishment. As the name suggests, the novel revolves around the very concept of crime and the consequent punishment imparted for it. Without superfluous tracks in typical Dostoyevskian style, it questions a very basic thing- if one kills an epitome of the evil, a vile vermin to save hundreds of innocents, how can it be called a crime and who can decide the befitting punishment for the same?The protagonist Rodion Romanovitch Raskolnikov is a tall and handsome 23 year old former university student who lives in a suffocating cupboard-like rented room in St. Petersberg, Russia. He publishes an article describing his theory on crime along with a hypothesis relating crime and a high fever. Months later, he shockingly finds himself compelled to brutally murder an old pawnbroker who he considers to be a den of iniquity and a venomous insect. Despite poverty, fever and dilemmas, he comes out unscathed and manages to duck everyone. From police to his intellectual best friend, Razhumihin and from his shrewd landlady to his over-analytical doctor, everyone believes him to be innocent. However, it is his own conscience that he relentlessly grapples with. One day at a cheap tavern, his path entwines with that of a bankrupt alcoholic clerk Marmeladov and later with his dignified but consumptive second wife Katrina Ivanovna (she has three children from a previous defunct marriage) and his religious and timid twenty year old daughter Sonia from his late first wife. When Sonia destroys herself in providing for her starving step-siblings, he bows at her feet, much to the shock of everyone.The novel also has other important characters like Svidrigailov, a 50 year old pedophile all set to marry a 15 year old, Luzhin, a devious narcissist and Dounia, the erudite and charming older sister of the protagonist, fighting her own demons. Raskiolnikov, till the end stays clear and unsuspected yet it is his inner voice that constantly bothers him and he ends up taking odd decisions in order to run away from his own crumbling self. His way of perceiving things is complex yet he manages to convince the reader into agreeing with him. Twists and turns keep the reader on the edge and the ending gives a nice closure to this powerful work. This novel also throws much light on the then Russian society and culture.Not just another run-of-the-mill fiction, ‘Crime and Punishment’ requires contemplation on the reader’s part. It takes one inside the frenzied but brilliant mind of Raskolnikov and argues upon the fundamentals such as of crime, what defines it, who can be called a criminal, what the meaning of punishment is, who actually deserves how much of it in any society, in an era and who deserves to rule the masses. This book breaks old moulds of notions and makes one reflect, that too profoundly. It undoubtedly is a timeless classic.PS- I found this translation to be a bit confusing and messed up at many places hence it is better to get another one from the many available ones.-The scene of Katrina Ivanovna’s depressing death later in the story, literally shook me up and made me cry.

I’m still a new to reading novels, so my opinion may change in the future, but I have say that for one of my first novels to read I feel like I’ve read a master piece!How the characters in the novel are written, makes them feel real and connectable to.The description of the characters, their personalities and the places where events happened is very likable as well.The way I can hear the characters’ thoughts made me sometime feel like I was the person living and thinking that way, as if I were them! onetime I even felt almost going crazy as one of the characters was going crazy!It is in the psychological genre and it does a great job at it, but I would advise to stay away from it if you’re not fond of that genre.As a last note, as a non English native speaker the novel was a little hard to read(I needed to use the translator a couple of times).TLDR;I felt like I read a master piece.It was enjoyable, makes you feel like you are the character him/her self, the way the characters and their thoughts are presented is fantastic and makes them connectable to and makes the reader able to understand them.I liked it a lot, I definitely recommend it to anyone into the psychological genre.

Great readingA classic

中学生の時に翻訳版を読んでいます。当時は主人公の「1つの罪は100の善行によって償われる」という考えに唸りました。主人公を応援する心情で読んだものでしたが、今再び読んでみて主人公の傲慢さ、というかただの精神病じゃないかと……。主人公には嫌悪を感じました。大体、綿密に計画し信念のもとに行っているはずなのに肝心のお金はとってこれず、思い切り体調まで崩して情緒すら不安定で。実行前の雄々しさはどこに？まあ主人公がめちゃくちゃな反面、ラズミーヒンの献身が目を引きヒーローとして見守れたのは良かったです。

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O ápice da carreira literária de Dostoievski, esta obra trás um dos personagens mais bem desenvolvidos da literatura, Raskolnikov. Um estudante falido que busca uma justificativa positivista para apossar-se dos bens de uma velha que comprava seus velhos itens de ouro e, após cometer o crime indicado no título do livro, passa por uma série de experiências que o fazem refletir, e, no final, o levam a uma certa forma de castigo. Não é um livro para ser lido só uma vez, cada releitura revela um insight a mais sobre cada um dos personagens tão bem construídos e cada um com seu desfecho próprio. Esta não é uma obra meramente literária, ela é uma crítica de Dostoievski a conceitos tão vigentes no século XIX, em especial o positivismo. A edição em questão traz uma tradução para o inglês sem erros aparentes. Esse é um do marcos da literatura mundial e, deveria, com total certeza, ser lido por todos.