Crime and Punishment (Annotated)
He has convinced himself that a terrible act can be justified. Living with it is another matter.
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View cart & checkout →St Petersburg is stifling in the summer heat. Rodion Raskolnikov, a former student living in poverty, has withdrawn into a cramped rented room and into an idea he can no longer put aside. He believes there are people for whom ordinary moral rules need not apply. But there is a difference between arguing with yourself and acting on what you believe.
As his world closes in, small encounters acquire a dreadful weight. A stranger's question, a familiar voice on the stairs, the arrival of a letter from home. People who care about Raskolnikov draw closer just as he becomes harder to reach. Somewhere between pride, desperation and fear, his explanations begin to fail him.
Crime and Punishment is one of Fyodor Dostoevsky's great psychological novels. Its power lies in the anxious life of the mind, but also in the lives pressing against it: families struggling to survive, friendships tested by suspicion, and people asked to pay the price of someone else's conviction.
This Vael Classics annotated edition invites readers into that nineteenth-century world without asking them to memorise it beforehand. A brief introduction evokes St Petersburg in 1866. A guide explains Russian names and familiar forms of address. Linked notes clarify historical and cultural references as they arise, with a way back to the exact passage. Progressive character dossiers, arranged as checkpoints after each Part, can help readers regain their bearings without deliberately disclosing later developments.
The story remains Dostoevsky's. You can consult the reading aids when you need them and return to the novel when you do not.
- Digital ISBN
- 978-93-345-4617-0
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- EPUB eBook