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 a suspicious police investigator, 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. ...

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. ...

A towering classic of Russian literature, Fyodor Dostoevsky`s Crime & Punishment is a compelling story of a brutal double murder & its aftermath. An impoverished ex-student, Rodion Raskolnikov, kills a pawnbroker & her sister, apparently for financial gain. But as he encounters friends & family, strangers & adversaries, Raskolnikov is compelled to face the true forces that have led him to murder. His struggle with himself & those around him becomes a battle of the individual against society, radicalism against tradition, & ultimately the will of man against the mysteries of divine providence. A sensation in its day, Crime & Punishment has left an indelible stamp on the world of literature. This beautiful Macmillan Collector`s Library edition of Crime & Punishment is translated from the Russian by Constance Garnett, with an afterword by Oliver Francis. Designed to appeal to the booklover, the Macmillan Collector`s Library is a series of beautiful special gift editions of much loved classic titles. Macmillan Collector`s Library are books to love & treasure. ...

TRANSLATED BY RICHARD PEVEAR & LARISSA VOLOKHONSKY. Consumed by the idea of his own special destiny, immured in poverty & deprivation, Rashkolnikov is drawn to commit a terrible crime. In the aftermath, Rashkolnikov is dogged by madness, guilt & a calculating detective, & a feverish cat-&-mouse game unfolds. The only hope for redemption, if Rashkolnikov can but recognise it, lies in the virtuous & faithful Sonya. The Vintage Classic Russians Series: Published for the 100th anniversary of the 1917 Russian Revolution, these are must-have, beautifully designed editions of six epic masterpieces that have survived controversy, censorship & suppression to influence decades of thought & artistic expression. ...

TRANSLATED BY RICHARD PEVEAR & LARISSA VOLOKHONSKY A troubled young man commits the perfect crime
- the murder of a vile pawnbroker
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Orlando Figes` ” Crimea” is a powerful history of the Crimean War, the conflict that dominated the nineteenth century. The Crimean War one of the fiercest battles in Russia`s history, killing nearly a million men & completely redrawing the map of Europe. Pitting the Tsar`s empire against an alliance of Britain, France & the Ottoman Empire, it was the first conflict to use photography, the telegraph & newspapers; a war over territory, from the Balkans to the Persian Gulf; a war of religion, driven by a fervent, populistbelief by the Tsar & his ministers that it was Russia`s task to rule all Orthodox Christians & control the Holy Land; it was the original `total war`. Orlando Figes` vivid new book reinterprets this extraordinary conflict. Bringing to life ordinary soldiers in snow-filled trenches, surgeons on the battlefield & the haunted, fanatical figure of Tsar Nicholas himself, ” Crimea” tells the human story of a tragic war. ” Lucid, well-written, alive & sensitive, it tells us why this neglected conflict & its forgotten victims deserve our remembrance”. (Oliver Bullough, ” Independent”). ” Figes paints a vivid portrait of a bloody & pointless conflict.. .he knows more about Russia than any other historian”. (Max Hastings, ” Sunday Times”). ”A fine, stirring account”. (Mark Bostridge, ” Financial Times”). ”A wonderful subject, on every level, & with Orlando Figes it has found the historian worthy of its width & depth”. (Norman Stone, ” Standpoint”). ” Figes is a first-class historian, as his splendid new book amply demonstrates”. (Dominic Sandbrook, ” Daily Telegraph”). Orlando Figes is Professor of History at Birkbeck College, University of London. He is the author of ” Peasant Russia”, ” Civil War”, ”A People`s Tragedy”, ” Natasha`s Dance”, ” The Whisperers” & ” Just Send Me Word”. His books have been translated into over twenty languages. ...

The Crimean War is one of the most compelling subjects in British history. Everyone knows about the Charge of the Light Brigade & men like Raglan & Cardigan, have become household names. The story of Florence Nightingale, `the Lady with the Lamp`, & the heroic reporting of William Russell, THE TIMES` intrepid correspondent, & the sonorous names of the battles, are ingrained deep within the British military consciousness
- Sebastopol, Inkerman, Balaclava & the Alma. Trevor Royle demonstrates how the Crimean War was a watershed in world history: coming between the defeat of Napoleon in 1815 & the opening shots of the First World War in 1914 it pointed the way to what mass warfare would be like for soldiers in the twentieth century.
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Crimea at 1:300, 000 on an English language map from Kartografija in Kiev with extensive tourist information including an enlargement for the southern coast, street plans of city centres in the region’s main towns & descriptions of numerous places of interest. All place names are shown transliterated into Latin alphabet. Topography is indicated by spot heights with colouring & graphics showing forested areas, vineyards & orchards, etc. National Parks & other protected areas are marked. Road network

Includes:: unsurfaced roads & local tracks & shows locations of petrol stations & car service centres. Railways lines indicate stations & ferry routes also shown. Interesting towns are highlighted & symbols mark places of interest, campsites, etc. The map has latitude & longitude lines drawn at intervals of 30’. An enlargement presents part of the southern coast around Yalta & Alupka in greater detail. Map legend is in English, French & German. The whole of the reverse side is covered by additional tourist information, all in English, providing extensive notes on the region’s protected areas, cultural heritage, & descriptions of places of interest. Also provided are street plans of city centres in Alushta, Feodosiya, Kerch, Sevastopol, Simferopol, Yalta, & Yevpatoriya, highlighting places of interest, various services, tourist accommodation, etc, each with a list of the sights.IMPORTANT
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Administrative provinces of the Ukraine on indexed road maps at 1:250, 000, each with a town centre street plan of its capital city. All place names are in Cyrillic only, but the map legend

Includes:: English. Coverage of the larger provinces is divided between the two sides of the map. Road network is presented in great detail, from international roads, shown with their E numbers, to dirt roads & country paths. Driving distances are marked on main, secondary & selected local roads; the maps also show border crossings, fuel stations, car service stations, & traffic patrol service points. Railway lines are shown with stations & local airports are marked. The maps also show boundaries of districts into which each region (oblast) is subdivided, & indicate their administrative headquarters. Topography is indicated by spot height, plus boundaries of national parks & other protected areas, & colouring and/or graphics for forests, orchards, vineyards, swamps & salt marshes. The maps have latitude & longitude lines at 10’ & 15’ respectively, & are indexed. Map legend

Includes:: English. Each title also

Includes:: a local table of driving distances & a street plan of the region’s administrative capital annotated with locations of selected hotels, car parks & petrol stations, museums & monuments, etc. In some titles more street plans are included.IMPORTANT
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Tourist map of the Crimea at 1:300, 000 from Kartografija in Kiev, with all place names in Cyrillic & the accompanying text including the map legend in Ukrainian only. City centre street plans of several towns are included. On one side is a road map of Crimea presenting the road network on a base with colouring indicating woodlands & orchards or vineyards. Topography is indicated by spot heights. Picturesque locations are highlighted & symbols indicate locations of petrol stations & car repair facilities, towns with tourist accommodation, etc. The map has latitude & longitude lines at 20’ & 30’ respectively. The southern coast, from Foros to Yalta & Partenit is also shown in greater detail at 1:00, 000. On the reverse side seven street plans show main roads, tourist accommodation & places of interest in Alushta, Feodosiya, Kerch, Sevastopol, Simferopol, Yalta, & Yevpatoriya. Extensive text provides more information about the region & the towns covered by the street plans. All place names are in the Cyrillic alphabet & all the text including the map legend is in Ukrainian only.IMPORTANT
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