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Crime and Punishment
by Feodor Dostoevsky (Translator: Jessie Coulson) (Illustrator: Robert Borja) (Illustrator: Corinne Borja)
Product Group: Book
Publisher: Franklin Center : The Franklin Library (1982) (1982)
ISBN: B001IQJ73Q
Binding/Media: Leather Bound
Edition: First Edition Thus
SKU: M1091108i
Condition: Like New
Comments: Crime and Punishment : Feodor Dostoevsky Franklin Library Red Cover Robert Borja illustrator - - Part of The Franklin Library's collection of The 100 Greatest Books of All Time - Red faux leather covers -with gilt design on spine and both front and back boards -with gilt lettering on spine -has 3 raised bands on spine, all 3 closed page edges gilt - includes illustrations and decorated endpapers - looks unread - pages clean and unmarked - binding tight and solid-- International Shipping avaliable - Please email for rates
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Customer Reviews
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Prompt service
Rating  (5)
Date: 2010-08-22
The book I ordered was in the exact condition as described and item was shipped to me promptly!
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Misleading
Rating  (1)
Date: 2010-07-31
2 out of 2 customers found this reveiw helpful
I wanted to get the David Magarshack translation of Crime and Punishment, so went to his page on amazon and clicked on C&P. Among the options offered is a kindle version, but the kindle version is NOT a Magarshack translation. Since the translation is critical to enjoyment of this great novel, I find amazon's options very misleading. All translations are NOT created alike.
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Check the Publisher of this book before you buy
Rating (1)
Date: 2010-07-08
7 out of 7 customers found this reveiw helpful
Crime and Punishment is one great novel. However, we have a bit of misleading marketing going on here. Make sure you're buying the version you think you're buying before you order. "Crime and Punishment" published by General Books LLC is a poor quality scanned in version. If you do the "Look Inside" thing on this book, you'll see the inside of another version of the book, NOT the one you will receive.
To give you a few quotes from the publishers website: "We created your book using OCR software ..... with up to 3,500 characters per page, even one percent can be an annoying number of typos.... After we re-typeset ... your book, the page numbers change so the old index and table of contents no longer work .... we usually remove them. .... Our OCR software can't distinguish between an illustration and a smudge or library stamp so it ignores everything except type. ..... We created your book using a robot who turned and photographed each page. Our robot is 99 percent accurate. But sometimes two pages stick together. And sometimes a page may even be missing from our copy of the book. .....". There's no manual editing whatsover.
You get the general idea. Unfortunately, books published by General Books LLC are named, seemingly intentionally, so that they have reviews associated with much better quality imprints. General Books LLC is an imprint of VDM Published (google them on Wikipedia), which is flooding Amazon with poor quality reprints and, unfortunately, many of them have the reviews associated with the original or with beter quality imprints associated with them.
Seems like it's Caveat Emptor on Amazon these days as Amazon certainly doesn't seem to be doing anything to protect it's customers from this Publisher.
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A Portrait of a Divided Mind
Rating (5)
Date: 2010-07-06
Raskolnikov, Crime and Punishment's protagonist, is a divided man (his name literally means "split" in Russian). On the one hand, he is an uber-Mensch, an intelluctual who feels entitled to take life into his own hands without regard for the consequences. On the other, he is a compassionate and caring man, trying to protect his sister Dounia and offering a helping hand to an impoverished drunk. Raskolnikov is always at odds with himself, and the two facets of his character are highlighted through Sonia, the moral prostitute, and Svidrigailov, the despicable intellectual. Usually, crime is the most fascinating aspect of a story. Here, the crime is over with rather quickly. Dostoyevsky's true genius is how he paints the character of Raskolnikov post-crime: a tortured soul wrestling with the concept of guilt and what it means to be redeemed.
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PUBLISHER'S INFLUENCE on LENGTH?
Rating (5)
Date: 2010-07-06
0 out of 1 customers found this reveiw helpful
I'll be very brief with a fresh idea. First off, the book is a great work of literature and a very good read. I needn't say more in that department as the other 5 star reviews here cover it well.
But my theory is that publishers wanted long novels as being more marketable rather than novellas or short stories. I think that influenced the writing of Dostoyevsky, Joseph Conrad and others. Although extremely well written, my view is that there is some padding in the story here as there also was to an even greater extent in the Brothers Karamazov.
I would be more in favor of "tight story telling".
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