Crime and Punishment (Penguin Clothbound Classics) [Hardcover] Dostoyevsky Fyodor and McDuff David

Part of Penguins beautiful hardback Clothbound Classics series designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith these delectable and collectible editions are bound in high-quality colourful tactile cloth with foil stamped into the design.Raskolnikov a destitute and desperate former student wanders through the slums of St Petersburg and commits a random murder without remorse or regret. He imagines himself to be a great man a Napoleon: acting for a higher purpose beyond conventional moral law. But as he embarks on a dangerous game of cat-and-mouse with Porfiry a suspicious detective Raskolnikov is pursued by the growing voice of his conscience and finds the noose of his own guilt tightening around his neck. Only Sonya a downtrodden prostitute can offer the chance of redemption. As the ensuing investigation and trial reveal the true identity of the murderer Dostoyevskys dark masterpiece evokes a world where the lines between innocence and corruption good and evil blur and everyones faith in humanity is tested.