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Title: Crime and Punishment (Penguin Classics) by Fyodor Dostoyevsky, David McDuff ISBN: 0-14-044913-2 Publisher: Penguin Books Pub. Date: 01 January, 2003 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $13.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.47 (379 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Handy dandy character guide
Comment: The Russian names in "Crime and Punishment" are also difficult to keep track of, particularly because characters are at times referred to using different names. To keep your Petrovna's and Petrovitch's apart, consider keeping a character list handy while reading. The list of the following main characters may be helpful for readers, reduce your frustration/confusion, and enhance your reading experience:
Rodion Romanovitch Raskolnikov (Rodya) - main character, murderer
Avdotya Romanovna Raskolnikov (Dounia) - Raskolnikov's sister
Pulcheria Alexandrovna Raskolnikov - Raskolnikov's mother
Dmitri Prokofitch Razumikhin - Raskolnikov's best friend
Zossimov - Raskolnikov's doctor during his illness
Alyona Ivanovna - the pawnbroker, murder victim
Lizaveta Ivanovna - pawnbroker's step-sister, abused by her
Nastasya Petrovna - servant/cook in Raskolnikov's house
Praskovya Pavlovna - Raskolnikov's eccentric landlady
Semyon Zakharovitch Marmeladov - alcoholic killed in accident, Sonia's father
Katerina Ivanovna Marmeladov - Marmeladov's wife
Sofya Semyonovna Marmeladov (Sonia) - Marmeladov's daughter, prostitutes to provide for stepmother/family
Amalia Ivanovna Lippevechsel - Marmeladov's landlady
Arkady Ivanovitch Svidrigailov - landowner, employed Dounia as governess & seduced her
Marfa Petrovna Svidrigailov - Svidrigailov's wife, died under mysterious circumstances
Pyotr Petrovitch Luzhin - Dounia's rejected fiance
Andrey Semyonovitch Lebeziatnikov - Luzhin's room-mate
Porfiry Petrovitch - police inspector
Alexandr Grigorievitch Zametov - clerk at police station
Ilya Petrovitch ("The Explosive Lieutenant") - police official, Raskolnikov meets after the murder, and confesses to at end
Nikolai Dementiev (Mikolka) - painter, falsely confesses to the murder
Rating: 5
Summary: Obsessive Brilliance!
Comment: Rodion Romanovitch Raskolnikoff , the truly marvellous creation of Dostevsky's 'Crime and Punishment ', representative of an uncontrollably intelligent mind swarming with thoughts bearing doubt, anger, chaos and extreme kindness! An epic about how a young man, Rodion, a former University student forced to withdraw from studies owing to paucity of finances, finds himself dictated by his inner urges which eventually lead to his killing of an old venomous usurer, Alena Ivanovna. The book then follows Rodion's path of self-destruction, bought about largely due to his inability to resist the incessant, yet hauntingly and brilliantly perceptive derivations of his own mind. A man lost in himself every breathing moment, unaware of his physically deteriorating body, and helpless in regards, his tumultuous mind. He is fiercely gripped by guilt for his crime, anxiety for it's result, and madness for his justification of the very act. Existing alongside a brilliant cast of characters, each adding to the nervousness of the surroundings, Crime and Punishment is simply a must read.
Rating: 5
Summary: philosophically justified murder
Comment: A desperate, penniless student named Raskolnikov kills an old woman in her apartment for her money. Before he commits the crime, he justifies his evil plan by reasoning that she is merely a dispicable, greedy, old pawnbroker and he sees no immorality in the deed, he believes the world will be better off without her. Raskolnikov gets away with it, but he then becomes consumed with feelings of guilt which won't leave him alone. This plunges him into a hell of self-persecution, madness and terror. He goes out of his way to allow himself to be interrogated by police. Eventually, he feels a compulsive need to confess his crime, as if to ease his conscience. This classic tale will show you the depths of the criminal mind, exposing the soul of a man who is not a villain but a man possessed of both good and evil just like the rest of us, but who through poverty-stricken desperation and a selfish nihilistic personal philosophy decides to act out on his darkest impulse. Ultimately he must face the consequences of his actions. A striking and memorable morality tale.
David Rehak
author of "A Young Girl's Crimes"
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Title: War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy, Rosemary Edmonds ISBN: 0140444173 Publisher: Viking Press Pub. Date: October, 1982 List Price(USD): $13.95 |
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Title: Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy, Mona Simpson ISBN: 067978330X Publisher: Modern Library Pub. Date: 10 October, 2000 List Price(USD): $9.95 |
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Title: The Brothers Karamazov by FYODOR DOSTOEVSKY, Konstanfin Mochulski ISBN: 0553212168 Publisher: Bantam Pub. Date: 01 April, 1984 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
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Title: The Idiot (Oxford World's Classics) by Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Alan Myers, Fyodor M. Dostoevsky ISBN: 0192834118 Publisher: Oxford University Press Pub. Date: July, 1998 List Price(USD): $7.95 |
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Title: The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky, Richard Pevear, Larissa Volokhonsky ISBN: 0374528373 Publisher: Farrar Straus & Giroux Pub. Date: 14 June, 2002 List Price(USD): $17.00 |
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