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A thrilling study of guilt & power the Penguin Classics edition of Fyodor Dostoyevsky&s Crime & Punishment is translated with an introduction & notes by David Mc Duff Raskolnikov a destitute & desperate former student wanders through the slums of St Petersburg & 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 & mouse with Porfiry a suspicious detective Raskolnikov is pursued by the growing voice of his conscience & 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 & trial reveal the true identity of the murderer Dostoyevsky&s dark masterpiece evokes a world where the lines between innocence & corruption good & evil blur & everyone&s faith in humanity is tested This vivid translation by David Mc Duff has been acclaimed as the most accessible version of Dostoyevsky&s great novel rendering its dialogue with a unique force & naturalism This edition also contains a new chronology of Dostoyevsky&s life & work Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoyevsky (1821-1881) was born in Moscow From 1849-54 he lived in a convict prison & in later years his passion for gambling led him deeply into debt His other works available in Penguin Classics include The Brothers Karamazov The Idiot & Demons If you enjoyed Crime & Punishment you might like Leo Tolstoy&s Anna Karenina also available in Penguin Classics & Mc Duff&s language is rich & alive& The New York Times Book Review ...

Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 (Europe) or region Free DVD Player in order to play Loosely based on Dostoyevski&s book & Crime & Punishment& Rob Schmidt&s film tells the story of Roseanne a young teenager who seems to have everything a gorgeous boyfriend lovely home & loving family But when her mother leaves her step-father for a local barman half her age Roseanne&s life is turned upside down & she is forced to put up with an abusive & alcoholic step-father Soon rumours start spreading around the school about her & unable to stand the abuse her step-father has been inflicting any longer she kills him However things are further complicated when her mother is accused of the murder & Roseanne finds support from Vincent a loner who has always been obsessed with her ...

Translated by Constance Garnett with an Introduction & Notes by Dr Keith Carabine University of Kent at Canterbury Crime & Punishment is one of the greatest & 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 & pride of contempt for & need of others & of terrible despair & hope of redemption & in a remarkable transformation of the detective novel we follow his agonised efforts to probe & confront both his own motives for & 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 & self-fulfilment as against the constraints of morality & human laws; & our agonised awareness of the world's harsh injustices & of our own mortality as against the mysteries of divine justice & immortality ...

' There we were all gathered together for a Christmas party & plunged suddenly into gloom' It's Christmas at Hampstead's Beresford Lodge A group of relatives & intimate friends gather to celebrate the festive season but their party is rudely interrupted by a violent death It isn't long before a second body is discovered Can the murderer be one of those in the great house? The stockbroker sleuth Malcolm Warren investigates in this brilliantly witty mystery' Kitchin's knowledge of the crevices of human nature lifts his crime fiction out of the category of puzzledom & into the realm of the detective novel He was in short ahead of his day' H R F Keating ...

Crime fiction has been one of the most popular genres since the 19th century but has roots in works as varied as Sophocles Herodotus & Shakespeare In this Very Short Introduction Richard Bradford explores the history of the genre by considering the various definitions of 'crime fiction' & looking at how it has developed over time Discussing the popularity of crime fiction worldwide & its various styles; the role that gender plays within the genre; spy fiction & legal dramas & thrillers; he explores how the crime novel was shaped by the work of British & American authors in the 18th & 19th centuries Highlighting the works of notorious authors such as Edgar Allan Poe Conan Doyle Agatha Christie & Raymond Chandler
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- he considers the role of the crime novel in modern popular culture & asks whether we can & whether we should consider crime fiction serious 'literature' ABOUT THE SERIES The Very Short Introductions series from Oxford University Press contains hundreds of titles in almost every subject area These pocket-sized books are the perfect way to get ahead in a new subject quickly Our expert authors combine facts analysis perspective new ideas & enthusiasm to make interesting & challenging topics highly readable

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Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 or region free DVD player in order to play Meet the most unconventional investigative team of all time in the BBC mystery adventure series Crime Traveller Written by award-winning author Anthony Horowitz creator of the brilliant Alex Rider adventures Foyle s War Rosemary & Thyme & Midsomer Murders Crime Traveller stars Michael French (East Enders Holby City) & Red Dwarf s Chloë Annett (Casualty Doctors) as sleuths Jeff Slade & Holly Turner Detective duos come & go working on intuition clues & good luck but Slade & his beautiful colleague Holly are armed with something very special in the ongoing fight against crime their very own time machine Invented by Holly s father Professor Frederick Turner the time machine may be a bizarre mixture of DIY technology but it works just sending the charming maverick detective Slade on a dangerous rollercoaster ride through both the present & the past Intriguing complex puzzles are solved with the aid of their unreliable collection of nuts & bolts & flashing lights but they must always obey the rules of quantum physics or risk being lost forever Aided by a superb cast that

Includes:: Waking The Dead s Sue Johnston & directed by Brian Farnham (Rosemary & Thyme Poirot Heartbeat Bergerac) Crime Traveller is a stylish fast-paced drama that was shown on prime time BBC television during the late 1990 s gathering a strong & loyal cult following hooked on the mysteries of time travel & crime fighting & paving the way for dramas such as the BBC s acclaimed series Life On Mars This DVD Box Set

Includes:: an exclusive interview with writer & creator Anthony Horowitz the man behind the newest big screen hero; Alex Rider DVD Special Features Cast & Crew Biographies Episode Synopsis Exclusive Anthony Horowitz Interview & Original Production Traile



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Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 (Europe) or region Free DVD Player in order to play Bad Karma Ray Liotta stars as Jack Malloy a hardcore career criminal until a near-death experience causes him to turn his world around But when his former partner Yates (Dominic Purcell of Prison Break & Straw Dogs is released from prison he tracks Jack down to blackmail him into one last job For one of them coming to terms with the past will be bloody murder The Entitled Without the security of the job he wants or the future he dreamed of Paul Dynan (Kevin Zegers) plans the perfect crime to help his struggling family
- extort a fortune from three wealthy men (Ray Liotta Victor Garber Stephen Mc Hattie) The plan to abduct their socialite children (Laura Vandervoort Dustin Milligan John Bregar) & collect a healthy ransom of 3-million dollars Over the course of one long night Paul & his accomplices hold the rich kids hostage awaiting the ransom with little idea of the secrets that will surface between the fathers when they are forced to choose between their children & their money Once blood is shed & things go horribly wrong Paul must fight to stay one step ahead of his own twisted game Officer Down One year ago dirty cop Detective Callahan (Stephen Dorff) was shot in a drug bust gone wrong & saved by an anonymous stranger who gave him a second chance to clean up his life But when the stranger finally comes forward seeking revenge against the men responsible for a string of assaults on young women at a local strip club Callahan must go rogue to find the attacker in an effort to hide how his past played a part in these crimes His desperation to find the attacker & cover his tracks takes him down a violent road of deception cover-ups & fraud Can he play the "good cop" & track down the assailant while still keeping his reputation clean?
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Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 (Europe) or region Free DVD Player in order to play DVD Special features Original Theatrical Trailer Interactive Menus Screens & Chapter Selections Soundtrack in Mono English French Italian Spanish Subtitles English French Italian Spanish Swedish Norwegian Danish English for the hard of hearing ...

Who was the murderer who committed an atrocity at an East End brothel in 1691? & was he ever caught? What superstitions lay behind the unfathomable slaughter of three innocent children at a remote farmhouse in County Durham in 1683? When was a parish constable murdered in cold blood by a party of men that allegedly included the illegitimate son of King Charles II? Where did violent lethal confrontations occur between supporters & opponents of King James II during the so-called Bloodless Revolution of 1688? Why was Dr Clenche ruthlessly garrotted in the back of a coach meandering through the darkened London streets? How did the very first killing attributed to the nation s civil wars occur in Manchester? Is there any truth in the legend of Exmoor s lawless Doone clan? These cases & many more are explored in depth within this work & harken back to a time of witchcraft purges duelling & political assassinations when the punishment for killing one s fellow man was either more barbaric than the crime itself or corruptly lenient Within these pages the story of violent crime in 17th century Britain is told from sociopathic noblemen & ruthless bandits to war crimes & judicial assassinations Illustrated throughout & shedding a unique light on the era Crimes & Criminals of 17th Century Britain is the first work of its kind to explore the monstrous murders that occurred against the backdrop of a nation that repeatedly imploded ...