{"product_id":"crime-and-punishment-fjodor-m-dostojewskij-9780140449136","title":"Crime and Punishment (Fjodor M. Dostojewskij)","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e'Dostoyevsky's finest masterpiece' John Bayley\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDostoyevsky's great novel of damnation and redemption evokes a world where the lines between innocence and corruption, good and evil, blur. It tells the story of Raskolnikov, a destitute and desperate former student, who wanders through the slums of St Petersburg and commits a random murder without remorse or regret. He imagines himself to be beyond conventional moral laws. But as he embarks on a dangerous game of cat and mouse with a police investigator, Raskolnikov is pursued by the growing voice of his conscience and finds the noose of his own guilt tightening around his neck. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTranslated with an Introduction and notes by DAVID McDUFF\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003ch4\u003eAutorenportrait\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eFyodor Mikhailovich Dostoyevsky was born in Moscow in 1821. His debut, the epistolary novella \u003ci\u003ePoor Folk \u003c\/i\u003e(1846), made his name. In 1849 he was arrested for involvement with the politically subversive 'Petrashevsky circle' and until 1854 he lived in a convict prison in Omsk, Siberia. From this experience came \u003ci\u003eThe House of the Dead \u003c\/i\u003e(1860-2). In 1860 he began the journal \u003ci\u003eVremya\u003c\/i\u003e (Time). Already married, he fell in love with one of his contributors, Appollinaria Suslova, eighteen years his junior, and developed a ruinous passion for roulette. After the death of his first wife, Maria, in 1864, Dostoyevsky completed \u003ci\u003eNotes from Underground\u003c\/i\u003e and began work towards \u003ci\u003eCrime and Punishment\u003c\/i\u003e (1866). The major novels of his late period are \u003ci\u003eThe Idiot\u003c\/i\u003e (1868), \u003ci\u003eDemons \u003c\/i\u003e(1871-2) and \u003ci\u003eThe Brothers Karamazov\u003c\/i\u003e (1879-80). He died in 1881.\n\u003cb\u003eDavid McDuff\u003c\/b\u003e's translations for Penguin Classics include Dostoyevsky's \u003ci\u003eCrime and Punishment\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Brothers Karamazov\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe Idiot\u003c\/i\u003e, and Babel's short stories.\u003c\/div\u003e\u003ch4\u003eWeitere Angaben\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eBuch (Paperback), B-format paperback, Englisch, 720 Seiten\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Weltbild.ch: Bücher \u0026 Outlet","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":65922484207965,"sku":"K011513446","price":11.8,"currency_code":"CHF","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0911\/8915\/0045\/files\/1151344600001A.jpg?v=1789413632","url":"https:\/\/weltbild.ch\/products\/crime-and-punishment-fjodor-m-dostojewskij-9780140449136","provider":"Weltbild.ch Bücher \u0026 Outlet","version":"1.0","type":"link"}