Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky Cowley Joseph
Dostoevsky was the son of a doctor. His parents were hard-working, religious people but poor.His first work, "Poor Folk," was published by the poet Nekrassov, and he found himself an instant…
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Dostoevsky was the son of a doctor. His parents were hard-working, religious people but poor.His first work, "Poor Folk," was published by the poet Nekrassov, and he found himself an instant celebrity. A brilliant career seemed opened to him, but in 1849 he was arrested and condemned to death.A member of a group of young men who met to read Fourier and Proudhon, he was accused of "taking part in conversations against the censorship... and of knowing of the intention to use a printing press."After eight months' in jail, he was taken to the Semyonovsky Square to be shot. Suddenly the troops beat a tattoo; they were unbound, and informed that his Majesty had spared their lives. The sentence was commuted to hard labor -- four years of penal servitude in Siberia, where he began "Dead House," and some years in a disciplinary battalion.In 1864 he lost first wife and his brother