{"product_id":"crime-and-punishment-9781509827749","title":"Crime and Punishment","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eDesigned to appeal to the book lover, the Macmillan Collector's Library is a series of beautifully bound pocket-sized gift editions of much loved classic titles. Bound in real cloth, printed on high quality paper, and featuring ribbon markers and gilt edges, Macmillan Collector's Library are books to love and treasure.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eA towering classic of Russian literature, Fyodor Dostoevsky's \u003ci\u003eCrime and Punishment \u003c\/i\u003eis a compelling story of a brutal double murder and its aftermath. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAn impoverished ex-student, Rodion Raskolnikov, kills a pawnbroker and her sister, apparently for financial gain. But as he encounters friends and family, strangers and adversaries, Raskolnikov is compelled to face the true forces that have led him to murder. His struggle with himself and those around him becomes a battle of the individual against society, radicalism against tradition, and ultimately the will of man against the mysteries of divine providence. A sensation in its day, \u003ci\u003eCrime and Punishment\u003c\/i\u003e has left an indelible stamp on the world of literature. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThis beautiful Macmillan Collector's Library edition of \u003ci\u003eCrime and Punishment \u003c\/i\u003eis translated from the Russian by Constance Garnett, with an afterword by Oliver Francis. Complete and unabridged.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFyodor Dostoevsky was born in Moscow in 1821 and studied in St Petersburg. His first work of fiction was the epistolary novel \u003ci\u003ePoor Folk\u003c\/i\u003e (1846), which met with a generally favourable response, but his subsequent works in the same period were less enthusiastically received. In 1849 Dostoevsky was arrested as a member of the socialist Petrashevsky circle, and suffered four years in a Siberian penal settlement followed by another four years of enforced military service. He returned to writing in the late 1850s and it was during the last twenty years of his life that he wrote the iconic works, \u003ci\u003eNotes from the Underground\u003c\/i\u003e (1864), \u003ci\u003eCrime and Punishment\u003c\/i\u003e (1866) and \u003ci\u003eThe Brothers Karamazov\u003c\/i\u003e (1880). He died in 1881.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"MacMillan Collector's Library","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50615294394642,"sku":"9781509827749","price":12.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_02b15f1d-eed9-48fe-8d7c-a67df57a1032.jpg?v=1768914067","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/crime-and-punishment-9781509827749","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}