The Story of Crime and Punishment

Desperate to escape his poverty, the poor student Raskolnikov murders his pawnbroker and her sister. At first, nobody suspects him, but his own con...

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The Murderess is a bone-chilling tale of crime and punishment with the dark beauty of a backwoods ballad. Set on the dirt-poor Aegean island of Ski...

Can you imagine a time when the punishment for stealing was death by hanging? However, how we punish crime has changed a lot, thankfully! This book...

Published to great acclaim and fierce controversy in 1866, Fyodor Dostoevsky's Crime and Punishment has left an indelible mark on global literature...

Reducere. Do you want to read Crime and Punishment? If so then keep reading...One of the supreme masterpieces of world literature, Crime and Punishment catap...

The real-life Alex Vause from the critically acclaimed, top-rated Netflix show Orange Is the New Black tells her story in her own words for the fir...

THE FRONT is a gritty story of small-time crime leading to big-time punishment, set in the Manchester badlands.

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DescriptionThis book offers a history of crime and the criminal justice system in America, written particularly for students of criminal justice an...

This is the story of a century of punishment and crime at HM Prison Holloway, western Europe's largest women's prison until its 2016 closure. This ...

Classic / British English Raskolnikoff, a young student, has been forced to give up his university studies because of lack of money. He withdraws f...

Reducere. Fyodor Dostoevsky's 1866 novel Crime and Punishment, arguably the first modern exploration of psychological realism, is not only a gem of Russian l...

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A portrait of the era and an evocation of 1950s club life in all its seedy glamour, A Fine Day for a Hanging sets Ruth's gripping story firmly in i...

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Reducere. Introduction and Notes by Henry Claridge, Senior Lecturer, School of English, University of Kent at Canterbury. This is a troubling story of crime,...

On one level Les Miserables is a detective story in which the relentless Inspector Javert obsessively pursues the escaped convict Jean Valjean. On ...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Fyodor DostoyevskyA predecessor to such monumental works such as Crime and Punishment and The Brothers Karamazov, Notes Fro...

A predecessor to such monumental works such as Crime and Punishment and The Brothers Karamazov, Notes From Underground represents a turning point i...

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DescriptionServing Time Too: A Memoir of My Son's Prison Years is the universally accessible story of a mother and son: what she knew about him; wh...

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The final masterpiece from the celebrated author of Crime and Punishment and The Idiot... This extraordinary novel, Dostoyevsky's last and greatest...

Reducere. Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky (11 November 1821 - 9 February 1881), sometimes transliterated Dostoyevsky, was a Russian novelist, short story writ...

Reducere. DescriptionForeword by Zac Stuart-Pontier, producer of Crimetown.For Bobby Walason, the turning point in his life began when he was thrown out of h...

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DescriptionFrom award-winning author Eugene Vodolazkin comes this poignant story of memory, love and loss spanning twentieth-century Russia A man w...

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Reducere. In June 1948, 27-year-old petty criminal Caryl Chessman was sentenced in California on two counts of sexual assault, receiving two death sentences ...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Kenneth E. HartmanThe fierce and affecting memoir of a convicted murderer, whose growing self-awareness enables him to unde...