The Story of Crime and Punishment

By Knut Schmidt-Nielsen

Book Overview

You should go to a street corner and get down on your knees and tell the whole world: "I have sinned."

Raskolnikov is a poor student living in St Petersburg. Desperate to escape his poverty, he murders his pawnbroker and her sister, and flees with a few watches and bits of jewellery. Although at first nobody suspects him, his own conscience plagues him incessantly - and it isn't long before a highly intelligent police detective by the name of Petrovich begins to have his doubts about Raskolnikov's innocence, and is determined to make him confess.

Dave Eggers says, of the series: "I couldn't be prouder to be a part of it. Ever since Alessandro conceived this idea I thought it was brilliant. The editions that they've complied have been lushly illustrated and elegantly designed."

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1559635126
• ISBN13: 9781559635127
• Release Date: May 1998
• Publisher: Island Press
• Length: 349 Pages
• Weight: 1.41 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.0" x 9.0"