From: Tony Kan (tony.kan_at_clear.net.nz)
Date: Thu Jun 30 2005 - 03:14:45 PDT
Folks
DJV tells me that this book has just been uploaded. Enjoy:
Title: Dostoyevsky, F. Crime and Punishment.
Format: MP2x00 portrait
Link:
http://www.stillnewt.org/library/_Fiction/Dostoevsky,%20Fyodor%20(1821-1881)
/
Blurb: One of the most famous novels in world literature,
Dostoyevsky’s Crime and Punishment from 1866 is a harrowing tale
about one man’s attempt to escape the implications of a single
dire act of murder. Rodion Romanovitch Raskolnikov - known as
Rodya - is a handsome young student who, in an attempt to save
his sister Dounia from marrying just to provide for him, kills a
slovenly sixty-year old pawnbroker with a porter’s axe. During
the killing her sister Lizaveta enters and he murders her too,
burying the spoils. The story follows Rodya as he tries to elude
detection at a police summons (he faints) and while another man,
Nikolay the painter, is accused. Various other characters come
into the equation such as Rodya’s student friend Razumihin who
fears his mental collapse and Zametov the police clerk who is
suspicious of the fainting incident. Episodes that follow include
Rodya’s return to the department of investigation under Porfiry
Petrovitch who tries to trap him psychologically and later
lectures him pertinently on the criminal mind. We fear for Rodya
and his untenable situation especially after his family receives
something of a small fortune from Svidrigailov. Into this melee
of strange circumstances comes Sonia - a pale girl from the
streets - to whom Rodya confesses his crime. It is then a
question of whether he should give himself up and if Dounia will
forgive his act of foolishness. The path of Rodya’s life leads
through these adventures to an acceptance of religion over
individualism.
Cheers
Tony Kan
Christchurch
New Zealand
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