Author: Dostojewski, Fyodor M. / McDuff, David (transl.) / Brockway, Harry (illustr.).
Title: Crime and punishment.
Description: London, Folio Society, 1997 Bound, quarter cloth and decorated cloth sides, with slipcase, xiv+510pp., 16x24cm., illustr. in b/w. by Harry Brockway, in very good condition (slipcover with light traces of use and bit discolorated on edges, some very light foxing on paper edges, name and date in pencil on first page). Conceived while Dostoyevsky was serving a four-year sentence of hard labour in Siberia, Crime and Punishment offers a chilling insight into the universal struggle between mind and soul. Tension and claustrophobia electrify the pages as they disclose the story of Raskolnikov, a starving student who convinces himself that logically, the murder of an odious money-lender is entirely justified. However, the forces of logic have no bearing on the workings of conscience?.

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