Crime and Punishment
Author: Dostoyevsky, Fyodor
ISBN: 9780141192802
Publisher: Penguin UK
Year First Published: 2014
Pages: 752
Dimensions: 179mm x 113mm x 37mm
Format: Paperback / softback
Description:
The acclaimed new translation of Dostoyevsky's masterpiece for Penguin Classics
'Will I really - I mean, really - actually take an axe, start bashing her on the head, smash her skull to pieces? . . . Will I really slip in sticky, warm blood, force the lock, steal, tremble, hide, all soaked in blood . . .axe in hand? . . . Lord, will I really?'
This 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.
ISBN: 9780141192802
Publisher: Penguin UK
Year First Published: 2014
Pages: 752
Dimensions: 179mm x 113mm x 37mm
Format: Paperback / softback
Description:
The acclaimed new translation of Dostoyevsky's masterpiece for Penguin Classics
'Will I really - I mean, really - actually take an axe, start bashing her on the head, smash her skull to pieces? . . . Will I really slip in sticky, warm blood, force the lock, steal, tremble, hide, all soaked in blood . . .axe in hand? . . . Lord, will I really?'
This 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.
