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Title: Crime and Punishment (Abridged) by Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Michael Sheen ISBN: 9-6263400-9-6 Publisher: Naxos Audiobooks Ltd. Pub. Date: 01 September, 1994 Format: Audio CD Volumes: 3 List Price(USD): $19.98 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.49 (374 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Crime and Punishment - A review
Comment: Crime and punishment is, in a single word, an outstanding literary work. It tells the harrowing tale of an ex-student, driven to murder, and the aftermath of his actions. It is superbly written and loses none of the passion and emotion through the translation from russian.
The book holds the readers attention, its insight into the main charachters mind keeping you interested untill the end. The writer, Fyodor Dostoevsky manages to extract an amazing tale from the bleak, severe surroundings of russia in which it is set.
In closing, I feel that Crime and Punishment is a book thet everyone should read at least once in their lifetime. It is a thought provoking book, offering deep insights into the human mind.
Rating: 3
Summary: a very useful book however not the best one i've ever read
Comment: Crime and punishment is a book in which Dostoyevski wanted to show people how disastrous such popular in western Europe rational philosopies professed by e.g. John Steward Mill, Herbert Spencer or Friedrich Hegel are. Rodion Raskolnikov is a young, intelligent Russian student and as most of Russian young guys he is an atheist (his name derives from Russian word 'raskol' which means more or less rebel). He thinks religion is useless and horrible situation in Russia only cofirms him in his conviction. In accordance to his theory, which divided people into worse and better he decides to commit a crime. After the crime Rodion becames ill - he's delirious, he raves but the only thing he regrets is that the crime didn't show that he is one of the 'better' people. As the book progresses Rodion is getting more and more obsessed. Fortunately he meets Sonia, a very religious girl which became a prostitute in order to earn money for her family. She is a completely different person than Rodion, which starts to suspect that he's theory wasn't right. Although he pleads guilty he still thinks he did the right thing commiting a crime. Only when he finally saw that Sonia's love towards him is true he redeems. The book shows a lot of true and false moral values. It's also a great guide through Russia in 19th century. And Dostoyevski was the one that gave rise to theories that e.g. Nietsche used; he also was the first one who noticed the great role that dreams and obsession play in our life. And although if it's sometimes quite boring it's undoubtedly worth reading.
Rating: 3
Summary: Insightful literature muddied by poor translation
Comment: I can't say how well the translator conveyed the original story since I don't read Russian. However, the English is stiff and awkward, leading me to believe that the translator chose to be literal rather than literary. As for the book itself, it is a very insightful reflection of 18th century urban life and sets the stage for the revolutionary movement that swept the country some 60 years later. The elements of that revolution are prefigured in the psychology of the various characters presented in the story, including debates on the merits of socialism. Reading this, one comes to realize that Communism in Russia evolved over many decades before reaching its bloody and horrific climax.
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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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