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Crime and Punishment (Revised)
Crime and Punishment (Revised) | Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky
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 a suspicious police investigator, 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.This vivid translation by David McDuff has been acclaimed as the most accessible version of Dostoyevsky s great novel, rendering its dialogue with a unique force and naturalism. This edition also includes a new chronology of Dostoyevsky s life and work."
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Crime and Punishment | Fyodor Dostoyevsky
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Bookwomble We visited Russia in 1991, just before Yeltsin came to power, and visited the Mariinsky Hospital for the Poor, Dostoyevsky's childhood home where his father was doctor, and the Dostoevsky Literary Museum in Leningrad (as it still was). I was rather awe-struck to be in places so intimately connected with him. 5mo
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mjtwo
Crime and Punishment | Fyodor Dostoyevsky
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18-21 Oct 23 (audiobook)
Another book I read as a uni student, at which time, I recall, I wanted Raskolnikov to get away with his crime and was frustrated by his descent into madness and paranoia. I felt differently upon listening to it thirty years later and had little sympathy for Raskolnikov.
Dostoevsky is, however, a master and his story remains compelling with many interesting characters and philosophies, particularly regarding the great man.

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Hamlet
Crime and Punishment | Fyodor Dostoyevsky
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I finally got to this one. Dostoyevsky offers some interesting psychological portraits here; his exploration of “the great man” theory of history (& its shedding of conventional morality) through impoverished, troubled Raskolnikov was intriguing. Other characters were fascinating too, as were questions of redemption & the ongoing nature of his punishment. I found the epilogue to be an abject failure, unworthy of the rest of the book.

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Mink
Su ve ceza | Fyodor Dostoyevsky

İ finished this book one month ago, but i still remember it very clearly. İf you want a classic book with some romantic features and realism, this one is really great. But its a bit long story,and the story is really great.

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aditiee
Crime and Punishment | Fyodor Dostoyevsky

“The temperament reflects everything like a mirror! Gaze into it and admire what you see!“

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Ryab
Crime and Punishment | Fyodor Dostoyevsky
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Freudian in the way it brings up deep seeded emotions. I genuinely enjoyed reading this book it only got better

gebbxl such a good book to fall asleep to 🔥 13mo
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Sharv_Sona
Crime and Punishment | Fyodor Dostoyevsky
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I started this book very enthusiastically, and then it got slow. Extremely slow. However, as I got past the first 6-7 chapters, I was hooked. After the first part, the book was still ridiculously slow, but what got me were the thoughts.

Entering Raskolinkov‘s mind was like entering a dark abandoned cellar with corridors leading to deep dark parts. This darkness led to very insightful and disturbing thoughts, which I bloody loved.

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️/5

Reyzl I also found it slow and dark. I know it is a masterpiece and it contains a lot of brilliant quotes but it‘s not one of the books that I have particularly enjoyed🤷🏼‍♀️ I love Dostoyevsky‘s “White Nights”. 13mo
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Sharv_Sona
Crime and Punishment | Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Your worst sin is that you have destroyed and betrayed yourself for nothing.

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Sharv_Sona
Crime and Punishment | Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Man has it all in his hands, and it all slips through his fingers from sheer cowardice.

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Sharv_Sona
Crime and Punishment | Fyodor Dostoyevsky

To go wrong in one‘s own way is better than to go right in someone else‘s.

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Sharv_Sona
Crime and Punishment | Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Pain and suffering are always inevitable for a large intelligence and a deep heart. The really great men must, I think, have great sadness on earth.

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Sharv_Sona
Crime and Punishment | Fyodor Dostoyevsky

There is nothing in the world more difficult than candor, and nothing easier than flattery.

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Sharv_Sona
Crime and Punishment | Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Only to live, to live and live! Life, whatever it may be!

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Sharv_Sona
Crime and Punishment | Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Break what must be broken, once for all, that‘s all, and take the suffering on oneself.

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Sharv_Sona
Crime and Punishment | Fyodor Dostoyevsky

The man who has a conscience suffers whilst acknowledging his sin. That is his punishment-- as well as prison.

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Sharv_Sona
Crime and Punishment | Fyodor Dostoyevsky

A hundered suspicions don‘t make a proof

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Sharv_Sona
Crime and Punishment | Fyodor Dostoyevsky

I did not bow down to you, I bowed down to all the suffering of humanity.

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Sharv_Sona
Crime and Punishment | Fyodor Dostoyevsky

We‘re always thinking of eternity as an idea that cannot be understood, something immense. But why must it be? What if, instead of all this, you suddenly find just a little room there, something like a village bath-house, grimy, and spiders in every corner, and that‘s all eternity is. Sometimes, you know, I can‘t help feeling that that‘s what it is.

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Crime and Punishment | Fyodor Dostoyevsky

When all reason fails, the devil helps.

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Sharv_Sona
Crime and Punishment | Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Taking a new step, uttering a new word, is what people fear most.

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Crime and Punishment | Fyodor Dostoyevsky

It takes something more than intelligence to act intelligently.

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Sharv_Sona
Crime and Punishment | Fyodor Dostoyevsky

An honest and sensitive man opens his heart, and the man of business listens and goes on eating—and then he eats you up.

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Sharv_Sona
Crime and Punishment | Fyodor Dostoyevsky

If you yourself don‘t dare, then there‘s no justice in it all.

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Crime and Punishment | Fyodor Dostoyevsky

“Do you understand, do you understand, my dear sir, what it means when there is no longer anywhere to go?”

“Accepting fate obediently as it is, once and for all, and stifling everything in myself, renouncing any right to act, to live, or love!”

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Sharv_Sona
Crime and Punishment | Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Words are not yet deeds

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Sharv_Sona
Crime and Punishment | Fyodor Dostoyevsky

I myself will come to you to be crucified, for I thirst not for joy, but for sorrow and tears!

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Sharv_Sona
Crime and Punishment | Fyodor Dostoyevsky

“Wonder, what are people most afraid of? A new step, their own new world, that‘s what they‘re most afraid of.”

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lonelybluenights
Crime and Punishment | Fyodor Dostoyevsky
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First book of the new year.

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sdbruening
Crime and Punishment | Fyodor Dostoyevsky
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Panpan

Whew, I made it. It was interesting for a while but then it just dragged. It almost seemed operatic to me in its melodrama and dialogue. I have enjoyed the philosophical musings in other Russian novels but the musings in this one did not keep my interest; I ended up skimming them.

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josephkc
Crime and Punishment | Fyodor Dostoevsky

"I didn't bow down to you, I bow down to all the suffering of the humanity".

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AllDebooks
Crime and Punishment | Fyodor Dostoyevsky
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#Scarathalon2022 #Dailyprompts #TeamSlaughter

Ohhh what brilliant cover artwork

Day 10 - Crime

@Clwojick

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Bookwomble
Crime and Punishment (UK) | David Zane Mairowitz
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A necessarily simplified version of Dostoevsky's classic, this was a good adaptation within the confines of a graphic novel.
Mairowitz and Korkos set the action in modern Russia to draw parallels between the corruption and inequality of Tzarist Russia and Putin's Russia. Worth an hour of most people's time, I think.

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Adventures-of-a-French-Reader
Crime and Punishment | Fyodor Dostoyevsky
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What a pleasure to dive in this 19th century classic! I like all the social commentaries sprinkled in 19th century works (it's important to remember they weren't written for the hoi polloi, but for intellectuals to be later discussed in literary salons).
In this particular book, I like the fantasy-like atmosphere of not really knowing what belongs to the dream and what belongs to reality.
First Russian classic, but it won't be my last.

IuliaC Great review! 2y
Adventures-of-a-French-Reader @IuliaC Thanks! I love essays and philosophical discussions, so when I'm in the mood, I love diving into a 18th or 19th century book. They are often representative of the ideas circulating at the time. 2y
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tphil10283
Crime and Punishment | Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky
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It‘s not at all what I imagined it to be by the name of the book. It‘s amazing to think that much of the middle class in Russia at the time (1860‘s) were actually a lot more progressive thinking and rational then most of the people in our country are today.

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yoavshai
Crime and Punishment | Fyodor Dostoyevsky
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#BookCoverChallenge
Day 271.
Here I will note 365 books (or as many as I will have before I get tired) that have shaped my taste in literature. No explanations, no reviews. Just the cover of the book.
I do not challenge anyone. You are all welcome to take part.

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GatheringBooks
Crime and Punishment | Fyodor Dostoyevsky
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#MayMoms Day 1: Because #Readers prefer books above everything else. Found this shared on social media and it speaks #Truth.

Eggs Beautiful! 2y
brittanybooks Woooooowwww!! 2y
Meshell1313 😍📚 #bookenvy! 2y
Enchanted_Bibliophile 😍 YES PLEASE! 2y
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The_Literary_Jedi
Crime and Punishment | Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky
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May TBR
Classic: Crime and Punishment- Dostoevsky🎧📘
#starwarsbuddyread : The High Republic - Rising Storm - Cavan Scott🎧📘
1. UNSELFIE- Michele Borba, Ed.D📘
2. The Last Duel - Eric Jager📘
3. Twilight of the Idols & The Anti-Christ - Nietzche 📘
4. The Final Solution - Michael Chabon 📘
5. The Widow Queen - Eliźbieta Cherezińska 📘

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freeatlast1137
Crime and Punishment | Fyodor Dostoyevsky
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Mehso-so

I can‘t tell if I liked this book or was completely bored by the book. I felt like I was slightly going mad from it. Maybe that was Dostoyevsky‘ point.

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Alex.Haydon
Crime and Punishment | Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky
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Now in the book, the main protagonist is determined to kill his landlady. After planning with anxiety Raskolnikov confronts the person and eventually locking her in a room his kill has been completed. Few seconds later someone else comes in and without hesitation kills the landladies sister and now having to deal with two victims he is confronted with his own fears. Soon after he attempted to clean his weapon but a certain event had taken place.

Alex.Haydon This event was an interruption from other people who had been ringing for the landlady and now Raskolnikov is in a stress filled predicament.
If you like books that have murder, filled with tense situations than this book is for you.
The point of view is Third person omniscient, this is expressed by how the protagonists thoughts are well explained with depth and not only that of the main character but others as well.
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MissYaremcio Nicely done Alex! I am so impressed by the fact that you have continued to read it! 6/6 2y
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JenReadsAlot
Crime and Punishment | Fyodor Dostoevsky
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1. I do! Currently reading Les Miserables
2. Tagged and bunch more on my list
Thanks for the tag @RaeLovesToRead @TheSpineView @bethm @Kshakal @peaknit
#two4tuesday

BethM I generally don‘t really like classics 😂 2y
BethM But like their movie adaptations 🤦‍♀️ don‘t hate me lol 2y
JenReadsAlot @BethM 😂 I don't hate you!! 2y
TheSpineView I'm with @BethM classic can be a difficult read. The writing styles are so different from today. Thanks for playing! 2y
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TheNeverendingTBR
Crime and Punishment | Fyodor Dostoyevsky
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1️⃣ I absolutely love reading classics from time to time, those old books tend to blow my mind more than anything that gets published today.

2️⃣ I want to read some Leo Tolstoy and Fyodor Dostoevsky soon, I've never read anything by these authors and certain books of theirs have been in my TBR forever.

I tag @Ast_Arslan @RaeLovesToRead @DarkMina @reading_rainbow @TiminCalifornia

#Two4Tuesday @TheSpineView

wanderinglynn Those authors are on my TBR too. In fact, I have Crime & Punishment—it‘s just waiting for me to read it. 2y
TheNeverendingTBR @wanderinglynn Need to get a readalong happening! 🤓🔖 2y
aa_guer2021 It excites me very much to hear that people are looking forward to conquering these books. I must say, I also need to 😬 though my choice comes down to translation or original! 😁 2y
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nanuska_153 Russian literature of the XIX century is the best you can read, it really blew my mind and it all started for me with crime and punishment. I postponed reading it because I thought it would be a difficult book, but not at all 2y
KathyWheeler @nanuska_153 I found that to be true of Crime and Punishment as well. I thought it would be such a difficult and dense read, but it‘s neither. 2y
TheNeverendingTBR @aa_guer2021 @nanuska_153 @KathyWheeler I'm looking forward to it even more now! 😁 2y
The_Penniless_Author @nanuska_153 Me too! I read Crime and Punishment when I was 15 and absolutely loved it. It kicked off a long love affair with Russian lit. 2y
nanuska_153 @The_Penniless_Author it was 18 for me, and I have the feeling the love affair will continue for my lifetime 2y
TheSpineView Thanks for playing! 2y
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Alex.Haydon
Crime and Punishment | Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky
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The main character Raskolnikov sees multiple people who try and tell him that people are not to be trusted through out part one of this book. After some time in a pawnshop he goes to a bar where he meets a guy named Marmeladov who has lost his job just a short while ago; he talks about all the horrible events that transpired in his life. He talked about how his daughter went into prostitution and the main character opposes this idea.

Alex.Haydon Later he receives a letter from his mom who explains what she has been doing and about the person who was marrying his sister. Raskolnikov knows this is a bad person and wants this marriage to stop. Later in the day he comes across a abused girl and pays police to take her home safely but his is worried that the police cannot be trusted. He has a dream after this event which makes him think that he cannot commit to a murder plan.
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Alex.Haydon If you like books that are a murder story that is filled with mystery and curiosity that can intrigue the reader then this is the book for you.
A theme of this book is detachment with society as seen by Raskolnikov who does not like people and socializing. He uses the people as a tool and uses them for himself since he does not trust anyone.
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MissYaremcio This has been on my TBR for years... good on you for attempting it! 6/6 2y
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kam01
Crime and Punishment | Fyodor Dostoyevsky
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I think this was the first classic book I read

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GinaKButler
Crime and Punishment | Fyodor Dostoyevsky
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I‘m going to go ahead and get a jumpstart on my February TBR by starting this one today. (When you‘re in the mood for Russian Lit, you have to jump on it!)

This is one of my 22 in ‘22 picks, and as it has 522 pages, it qualifies for @TheAromaofBooks #almostachunksterchallenge

PS...I love these Vintage Classics Russian Series books. They are gorgeous!
#bookspinbingo

GarethSouthwell Ashamed to say I haven't read any Dostoevsky. There, now everyone knows. I should really remedy that! 2y
TheAromaofBooks Oh wow, that copy really is gorgeous!!! 2y
GinaKButler @GarethSouthwell There‘s no time like the present! 2y
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DrSabrinaMoldenReads
Crime and Punishment | Fyodor Dostoyevsky
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Bailedbailed

I not sure if this is a pan or a bail because I read almost to the very end and could not bring myself to finish.
I guess I was enjoying his writing style but I did not buy his characterizations and other things. It kept getting worse and worse. Ugh. Off to Goodwill

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mikeymendoza
Crime and Punishment | Fyodor Dostoevsky
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Been reading this beauty for a couple of weeks now. ❤

SolaRaynor Such an incredible book. 2y
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CogsOfEncouragement
Crime and Punishment | Fyodor Dostoyevsky
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Enjoyed this hefty classic. One that I wasn‘t sure I would ever get to, but decided to tackle it before heading into the holidays this year.

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