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Crime and Punishment (AmazonClassics Edition)

By: Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Constance Garnett - translator
Narrated by: James Anderson Foster
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Earphones Award Winner and nominee for the 2019 Audie Award for Best Literary Fiction & Classics Audiobook

Featured title on PBS’s The Great American Read in 2018

Living in a squalid room in St. Petersburg, the indigent but proud Rodion Raskolnikov believes he is above society. Obsessed with the idea of breaking the law, Raskolnikov resolves to kill an old pawnbroker for her cash.

Although the murder and robbery are bungled, Raskolnikov manages to escape without being seen. And with nothing to prove his guilt and a mendacious confessor in police custody, Raskolnikov seems to have committed the perfect crime. But in Fyodor Dostoyevsky’s world of moral transgressions, with its reason and its consequences, Raskolnikov’s plan has a devastating hitch: the feverish delirium of his own conscience.

AmazonClassics brings you timeless works from the masters of storytelling. Ideal for anyone who wants to hear a great work for the first time or rediscover an old favorite, these new editions open the door to literature’s most unforgettable characters and beloved worlds.

Revised edition: Previously published as Crime and Punishment, this edition of Crime and Punishment (AmazonClassics Edition) includes editorial revisions.

Public Domain (P)2018 Brilliance Publishing, Inc., all rights reserved. Classics Genre Fiction Literary Fiction Fiction

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Starts of well and the first part is quite thrilling.

However the book gradually becomes pre-occupied with the comings and goings of society around the central character and it less about the murders, so slows down a lot. Almost becoming a literary soap opera with all the tangled proposals and "Love Triangles" surrounding Dunya.

The ending is quite well managed and written however. In a way the bulk of the novel does contribute to the overall circumstance the main character finds himself in the final chapters but required a lot of work to get their.

All in all it's well read and narrated. I would recommend on the basis that this is a famous literary work.

Exciting opening, but slows down a lot.

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I have a few Dostoyevsky books on my bookshelf (makes me look clever, innit) but have never got round to reading them due to their intimidating thickness. The audiobook seemed like a manageable alternative. I must say, the 20 hours flew by. I absolutely loved this book and it gripped my attention for about 99% of the time - this is a miracle in itself as I am very easily distracted by shiny things.

James Anderson Foster, the narrator, is brilliant. I know there are other narrators to choose from but I can't imagine them being any better than Foster.

This tome has been reviewed and dissected by many learned experts, so I shall not even attempt to do so. All I will say is that I will be reading/listening to more of Dostoyevsky's novels.

My First (but not last) Dostoyevsky

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A great piece of writing, to be read by everyone who is fortunate enough to be able

Relatable and yet from a distant place and time

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I never read fiction, but every chapter in this book left me speechless. Extremely thought provoking, magnificently performed in audio form

Thought provoking

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As I go on my journey of reading classics, I stumbled upon a problem.
They're classics, therefore no matter how you approach the book you almost certainly have some sort of high regard towards it. That alone, can make a book disappointing.
I expected a book that battles the idea of good and evil, right and wrong and the ever going debate of subjective/objective morals.
Instead, I read a book about a gloomy bunch who fall ill very easily for some reason, with very little actual the "battle of ideas" I expected.
Then again, like always, I might be a complete fool.

Down with high expectations!

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