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Crime and punishment is a novel by the russian author fyodor dostoevsky. Wilson, the spectator times literary supplement books of the year 2014. Book summary to prove his theory, he murders an old, despicable pawnbroker and her halfsister who happened to come upon him suddenly. When dostoyevsky started work on crime and punishment in the summer of 1865 he was depressed and in serious. Buy crime and punishment penguin classics book online at low. Dostoevskys crime and punishment refashioned the idea of what a. Crime and punishment is a novel by fyodor dostoevsky, one of the founders of the modern novel. Crime and punishment bantam classics 9780553211757. A summary of themes in fyodor dostoevskys crime and punishment.
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