With an Introduction and Notes by Dr Keith Carabine,University of Kent at Canterbury
陀思妥耶夫斯基是俄国著名的批判现实主义作家。《罪与罚》是他的一部卓越的社会哲理小说，它的发表标志着他艺术风格的成熟。小说成功地反映农奴制改革后，资本主义的发展在俄国生活的各个方面，探讨了贫穷与犯罪等社会哲理问题，但小说也暴露了作者世界观的全部矛盾。小说于1866年一发表，立即引起强烈的反响，使作者获得世界声誉。
Crime and Punishment is one of the greatest and most readable novels ever written.From the beginning we are locked into the frenzied consciousness of Raskolnikov who,against his better instincts,is inexorably drawn to commit a brutal double murder.
From that moment on,we share his conflicting feelings of self-loathing and pride,of contempt for and need of others,and of terrible despair and hope of redemption:and,in a remarkable transformation of the detective novel,we follow his agonised efforts to probe and confront both his own motives for,and the consequences of,his crime.
The result is a tragic novel built out of a series of supremely dramatic scenes that illuminate the eternal conflicts at the heart of human existence:most especially our desire for self-expression and self-fulfilment,as against the constraints of morality and human laws;and our agonised awareness of the world's harsh injustices and of our own mortality,as against the mysteries of divine justice and immortality.
Book Description
Wordsworth Classics covers a huge list of beloved works of literature in English and translations. This growing series is rigorously updated, with scholarly introductions and notes added to new titles.
"Crime and Punishment", based on Dostoevsky's own experience of the justice and penal system of Tsarist Russia, is a dark tale set in the dingy streets of St Petersburg, concerning the actions of a murderer who decides to commit homicide as a matter of principle.
Book Dimension :
length: (cm)19.8 width:(cm)12.6
陀思妥耶夫斯基（Ф.М.Достоевкий，1821～1881），俄国19世纪文坛上享有世界声誉的一位小说家，他的创作具有极其复杂、矛盾的性质。
陀思妥耶夫斯基生于医生家庭，自幼喜爱文学。遵父愿入大学学工程，但毕业后不久即弃工从文。在法国资产阶级革命思潮影响下，他醉心于空想社会主义，参加了彼得堡进步知识分子组织的彼得拉舍夫斯基小组的革命活动，与涅克拉索夫、别林斯基过往甚密。
1846年发表处女作《穷人》，继承并发展了普希金《驿站长》和果戈里《外套》写“小人物”的传统，对他们在物质、精神上备受欺凌、含垢忍辱的悲惨遭遇表示深切同情。唤醒他们抗议这个不合理的社会制度。
《双重人格》（1846）、《女房东》（1847）、《白夜》（1848）和《脆弱的心》（1848）等几个中篇小说使陀思妥耶夫斯基与别林斯基分歧日益加剧，乃至关系破裂。后者认为上述...