Crime and Punishment
Author: Fyodor Dostoyevsky
“Pain and suffering are always inevitable for a large intelligence and a deep heart…”,,Translated by Constance Garnett with an Introduction and Notes by Dr Keith Carabine, University of Kent at Canterbury.,,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, ag….Read More
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