{"product_id":"9780141956961","title":"Crime and Punishment","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e'Will I really - I mean, really - actually take an axe, start bashing her on the head, smash her skull to pieces? . . . Will I really slip in sticky, warm blood, force the lock, steal, tremble, hide, all soaked in blood . . .axe in hand? . . . Lord, will I really?' \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis new translation of Dostoevsky's 'psychological record of a crime' gives his dark masterpiece of murder and pursuit a renewed vitality, expressing its jagged, staccato urgency and fevered atmosphere as never before.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky was born in Moscow in 1821. His debut, the epistolary novella \u003ci\u003ePoor Folk\u003c\/i\u003e (1846), made his name. In 1849 he was arrested for involvement with the politically subversive 'Petrashevsky circle' and until 1854 he lived in a convict prison in Omsk, Siberia. From this experience came \u003ci\u003eThe House of the Dead \u003c\/i\u003e(1860-2). In 1860 he began the journal \u003ci\u003eVremya\u003c\/i\u003e (Time). Already married, he fell in love with one of his contributors, Appollinaria Suslova, eighteen years his junior, and developed a ruinous passion for roulette. After the death of his first wife, Maria, in 1864, Dostoyevsky completed \u003ci\u003eNotes from Underground\u003c\/i\u003e and began work towards \u003ci\u003eCrime and Punishment\u003c\/i\u003e (1866). The major novels of his late period are \u003ci\u003eThe Idiot\u003c\/i\u003e (1868), \u003ci\u003eDemons\u003c\/i\u003e (1871-2) and \u003ci\u003eThe Brothers Karamazov\u003c\/i\u003e (1879-80). He died in 1881.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOliver Ready is Research Fellow in Russian Society and Culture at St Antony's College, Oxford. He is general editor of the anthology, \u003ci\u003eThe Ties of Blood: Russian Literature from the 21st Century \u003c\/i\u003e(2008), and Consultant Editor for Russia, Central and Eastern Europe at the \u003ci\u003eTimes Literary Supplement\u003c\/i\u003e. As Director of the Russkiy Mir Programme at St Antony's, he runs events and conferences devoted to Russian culture.\u003cu\u003e\u003c\/u\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Penguin UK","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47077538431216,"sku":"9780141956961","price":10.14,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780141956961_p0.jpg?v=1763655806","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780141956961","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}