Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky

Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky

Adapted by Joseph Cowley

    • €11.99
    • €11.99

Publisher Description

Dostoevsky was the son of a doctor. His parents were hard-working, religious people but poor.


His first work, "Poor Folk," was published by the poet Nekrassov, and he found himself an instant celebrity. A brilliant career seemed opened to him, but in 1849 he was arrested and condemned to death.



A member of a group of young men who met to read Fourier and Proudhon, he was accused of "taking part in conversations against the censorship
and of knowing of the intention to use a printing press."



After eight months' in jail, he was taken to the Semyonovsky Square to be shot. Suddenly the troops beat a tattoo; they were unbound, and informed that his Majesty had spared their lives. The sentence was commuted to hard labor -- four years of penal servitude in Siberia, where he began
"Dead House," and some years in a disciplinary battalion.



In 1864 he lost first wife and his brother Mihail. He was in terrible poverty, yet he took upon himself the payment of his brother's debts. Weighed down by debt, he wrote at heart-breaking speed, and is said never to have corrected his work. The later years of his life were much softened by the tenderness and devotion of his second wife.



In June 1880 he made his famous speech at the unveiling of the monument to Pushkin in Moscow and was received with demonstrations of love and
honor. A few months later he died. He was followed to the grave by a vast multitude of mourners.



He is still probably the most widely read writer in Russia. In the words of a Russian critic, "He was one of ourselves, a man of our blood and our
bone, but one who has suffered and has seen so much more deeply than we have his insight impresses us as wisdom... that wisdom of the heart
which we seek that we may learn from it how to live."

GENRE
Fiction & Literature
RELEASED
2011
15 September
LANGUAGE
EN
English
LENGTH
144
Pages
PUBLISHER
IUniverse
SIZE
195.3
KB

More Books Like This

Crime and Punishment (Annotated with Critical Essay and Biography) Crime and Punishment (Annotated with Critical Essay and Biography)
2011
Crime and Punishment Crime and Punishment
2016
Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky
2009
Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
2017
Crime and Punishment Crime and Punishment
2007
Soviet Six Pack Soviet Six Pack
2016

More Books by Joseph Cowley

Washington Square by Henry James Washington Square by Henry James
2016
The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky  (Translated by Constance Garnett) The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky  (Translated by Constance Garnett)
2015
Landscape With Figures Landscape With Figures
2001
Alice's Adventures In Wonderland By Lewis Carroll Alice's Adventures In Wonderland By Lewis Carroll
2012
The Kreutzer Sonata By Leo Tolstoy The Kreutzer Sonata By Leo Tolstoy
2012
The Scarlet Letter By Nathaniel Hawthorne (Adapted By Joseph Cowley} The Scarlet Letter By Nathaniel Hawthorne (Adapted By Joseph Cowley}
2012