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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.
we usually remove them. 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. However, we have a bit of misleading marketing going on here. Our robot is 99 percent accurate.
"Crime and Punishment" published by General Books LLC is a poor quality scanned in version. Crime and Punishment is one great novel. Our OCR software can't distinguish between an illustration and a smudge or library stamp so it ignores everything except type. There's no manual editing whatsover.You get the general idea. with up to 3,500 characters per page, even one percent can be an annoying number of typos.
We created your book using a robot who turned and photographed each page. Unfortunately, books published by General Books LLC are named, seemingly intentionally, so that they have reviews associated with much better quality imprints. Make sure you're buying the version you think you're buying before you order. But sometimes two pages stick together. After we re-typeset.
your book, the page numbers change so the old index and table of contents no longer work. And sometimes a page may even be missing from our copy of the book.". 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.
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. Raskolnikov, Crime and Punishment's protagonist, is a divided man (his name literally means "split" in Russian). Usually, crime is the most fascinating aspect of a story. 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. 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.
I'll be very brief with a fresh idea. But my theory is that publishers wanted long novels as being more marketable rather than novellas or short stories. 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. 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".
I'll be very brief with a fresh idea. But my theory is that publishers wanted long novels as being more marketable rather than novellas or short stories. 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. 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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