Binding: Hardcover
Description: Part of Penguin's beautiful hardback Clothbound Classics series designed by the award - winning Coralie Bickford - Smith these delectable and collectible editions are bound in high - quality colourful tactile cloth with foil stamped into the design. 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 Porfiry a suspicious detective Raskolnikov is pursued by the growing voice of his conscience and finds the noose of his own guilt tightening around his neck. Only Sonya a downtrodden prostitute can offer the chance of redemption. As the ensuing investigation and trial reveal the true identity of the murderer Dostoyevsky's dark masterpiece evokes a world where the lines between innocence and corruption good and evil blur and everyone's faith in humanity is tested.
Title: Crime And Punishment
Author(s): Dostoyevsky Fyodor
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
Barcode: 9780241347683
Pages: 720 Pages
Language: English
Publication Date: 10/9/2018
Series: Penguin Clothbound Classics
Category: Classic Fiction