Crime and Punishment is social-psychological and social-philosophical novel. It focuses on moral dilemmas of Rodion Raskolnikov, an impoverished ex-student in Saint Petersburg who formulates and executes a plan to kill an unprincipled pawnbroker for her cash. He commits the murder to test a theory of his that dictates some people are naturally capable of such actions, and even have the right to perform them pedia of Russian life. It portrays a large cast of other characters and offers the reader many literary, philosophical, and autobiographical digressions, often in a highly satirical vein.
ISBN: 978-5-521-00554-3
Издательство:
Пальмира
Дата выхода: май 2017
Raskolnikov, a former student who is morbidly self-obsessed, murders an old woman money-lender with a borrowed hatchet in a desperate attempt to free himself from poverty. From the opening pages Dostoyevsky attaches us unflinchingly to his intense and mysterious anti-hero, creating a web of intimacy and tension which is increasingly claustrophobic. Crime and guilt - its traumatic and inevitable successor - are the central themes running through the novel and the notions of 'justifiable' murder and worldly retribution are depicted with a deft and razor-sharp precision.
ISBN: 0140621806
Издательство:
Penguin Books
Дата выхода: декабрь 2001
The Crimean War was the denning conflict of the nineteenth century and one of the fiercest battles in Russia`s history: pitting its empire against an alliance of Britain, France and Turkey, killing at least 800,000 men and completely redrawing the map of Europe. It was the first conflict to use photography, the telegraph and newspapers, - the original "total war". Orlando Figes` vivid new book reinterprets this extraordinary conflict. Bringing to life ordinary soldiers in snow-filled trenches, surgeons on the battlefield and the haunted, fanatical figure of Tsar Nicholas himself, Crimea tells the human story of a tragic war.
ISBN: 978-0-14-101350-3
Издательство:
Penguin Books
Дата выхода: сентябрь 2011
Sara Paretsky, Margery Allingham, Sue Grafton, Patricia Highsmith
Murder of a stranger or a relative, in a quiet English town or a crowded American city. It happens everywhere for all kinds of reasons. Short stories by some of the finest modern crime writers.
ISBN: 978-1-4058-5218-0
Издательство:
Longman Group UK Limited
Дата выхода: июль 2011
Crime and Punishment is one of the greatest and most readable novels ever written. From the beginning we are locked into the frenzied consciousness of Raskolnikov who, against his better instincts, is inexorably drawn to commit a brutal double murder. Powerful, brilliant, insightful and surprisingly engaging despite the fact that it is far from being a "light" read in either prose or content. In this novel Fyodor Dostoevsky explores the theme of redemption through suffering.
ISBN: 978-5-521-05811-2
Издательство:
Т8
Дата выхода: сентябрь 2017
`Crime and Punishment` is one of the greatest and most readable novels ever written. From the beginning we are locked into the frenzied consciousness of Raskolnikov who, against his better instincts, is inexorably drawn to commit a brutal double murder. From that moment on, we share his conflicting feelings of selfloathing and pride, of contempt for and need of others, and of terrible despair and hope of redemption: and, in a remarkable transformation of the detective novel, we follow his agonised efforts to probe and confront both his own motives for, and the consequences of, his crime. The result is a tragic novel built out of a series of supremely dramatic scenes that illuminate the eternal conflicts at the heart of human existence:...
ISBN: 1-84022-430-4
Издательство:
Wordsworth Editions Ltd.
Дата выхода: апрель 2004
Death is my beat.` Those words, spoken by the narrator and hero of THE POET, Jack McEvoy, could also apply to Michael Connelly. Time and time again in these riveting pieces, we make the connection between Connelly the crime reporter and Connelly the novelist: `On the day I arrived in Los Angeles I sat in the newspaper editor`s office being interviewed for a job on the crime beat. The day before there had been a bank heist in which the thieves had gone into the city`s labyrinthine storm water tunnel system to get beneath the bank before tunnelling upward.` Years later that story would become THE BLACK ECHO. `Moments. They kept coming. One morning an editor called me and told me to swing by a murder scene on my way to the office. Just like...
ISBN: 978-0-7528-8154-6
Издательство:
Orion Books
Дата выхода: август 2011
