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Location:Home » Books » Crime and Punishment (Wordsworth Classics)
Languages:English (Unknown), English (Original Language), English (Published) Media:Paperback Edition:New Ed Pages:528 Number Of Items:1 Shipping Weight (lbs):0.8 Dimensions (in):7.7 x 4.9 x 1.1
ISBN:1840224304 EAN:9781840224306 ASIN:1840224304
Publication Date:September 12, 2000 Shipping:Eligible for FREE Super Saver Shipping Availability:Usually dispatched within 24 hours
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Amazon.co.uk Review "For those who have vision and the courage to follow it, there is no law and no crime and no punishment, only a revaluation of all values." So declares Rodya Raskolnikov the young Russian intellectual living in ugly poverty. In order to eat, he is forced to pawn precious possessions for a few roubles to the greedy "cockroach", Alyona. If he kills her, Rodya argues, he commits no crime: rather he will rid the world of a "filthy insect", just like one of the cockroaches the listener can hear being crushed beneath his boots. As Alyona examines Rodya's silver cigarette case, he brings his axe down upon her with the horrifying sound of steel hitting human flesh. Despite this not being a crime, Rodya suffers fearful guilt--and inevitable punishment. It is Sonya, the abused young woman forced into prostitution by her drunken father, who holds the power of Rodya's redemption. Dramatisation is a superb vehicle for this tense psychological masterpiece and the performances are powerful: the baiting of Rodya by Jim Norton as Petrovich, the police officer who suspects Rodya's guilt, is chilling; while Barnaby Kay skilfully conveys Rodya's duality as his human conscience, breathless with panic, argues with his controlled and truculent intellect. --Running time approx 2 hours 50 minutes--Rachel Redford
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