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Crime and Punishment
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  • Crime and Punishment , Fyodor Dostoevsky (1866†   (source)
  • The elections attract campaign contributions from business interests seeking tort reform or from trial lawyers who want to protect large civil verdicts, but since most voters are unschooled in these areas, the campaigns invariably focus on crime and punishment.†   (source)
  • And Crime and Punishment—even my Grade Thirteen girls struggle with the so-called 'psychological' novel.†   (source)
  • There were sidebar buttons, so that if you didn't know what Crime and Punishment was, or the Theory of Relativity, or the Trail of Tears, or Madame Bovary, or the Hundred Years' War, or The Flight into Egypt, you could double-click and get an illustrated rundown, in two choices: R for children, PON for Profanity, Obscenity, and Nudity.†   (source)
  • CRIME AND PUNISHMENT   (source)
  • Another masterly description of how existential choice springs from inner need and despair can be found in Dostoyevsky's great novel Crime and Punishment.†   (source)
  • It's even been compared to Crime and Punishment— because they both have such a simple story line, I guess."†   (source)
  • When the door swung open, she carried Phoebe into a room she knew by heart: the durable dark-brown carpet, the plaid sofa and chair she had gotten on sale, the glass-topped coffee table, the novel she'd been reading before bed—Crime and Punishment—neatly marked.†   (source)
  • I suppose crime and punishment are things that most thieves keep track of.†   (source)
  • A strange and unnatural state in which the lines blur between light and darkness, dusk and dawn, crime and punishment, cruelty and compassion, good and evil.†   (source)
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  • She had some silly necklaces on and was reading Crime and Punishment, which she had found in a bookshop one street away.†   (source)
  • I was deep into Crime and Punishment, and although my ambitions as a writer had been laid low by the book's stupefying range and complexity, I had, for several afternoons now, been forging ahead with admiring wonder, much of my amazement having to do simply with Raskolnikov, whose bedeviled and seedy career in St. Petersburg seemed (except for a murder) so closely analogous to mine in Brooklyn.†   (source)
  • It is the presence of art in Crime and Punishment that moves us deeply rather than the story of Raskolnikov's crime.†   (source)
  • THEN one of the judges of the city stood forth and said, Speak to us of Crime and Punishment.†   (source)
  • Crime and punishment grow out of one stem.†   (source)
  • CRIME AND PUNISHMENT PART I CHAPTER I On an exceptionally hot evening early in July a young man came out of the garret in which he lodged in S. Place and walked slowly, as though in hesitation, towards K. bridge.†   (source)
  • I see thy fall Determined, and thy hapless crew involved In this perfidious fraud, contagion spread Both of thy crime and punishment: Henceforth No more be troubled how to quit the yoke Of God's Messiah; those indulgent laws Will not be now vouchsafed; other decrees Against thee are gone forth without recall; That golden scepter, which thou didst reject, Is now an iron rod to bruise and break Thy disobedience.†   (source)
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