Crime and Punishment: Chinese-English Parallel Text (Includes VCD)

Author: Fyodor Dostoevsky Ge Mingrong
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Publish Date: 2005-05-01
Features: We are living in an era where various ways of thinking and price orientations coexist in a cacophony. We need to create classics that belong to our time. However, it is often overlooked that classics become classics through a long and arduous process, much like the winnowing of the waves. In a relatively short period, the effectiveness of testing classics is naturally diminished. Therefore, embracing classics is undoubtedly a shortcut to gaining valuable life experiences! The "Strong Coffee" Bilingual Classics Series will guide you into an intimate encounter with literary classics. Unconsciously, you will become immersed in the joy of reading, unable to put it down. As you savor the subtle and enduring fragrance of the classics, your chaotic mind will find perfect solace. After some contemplation, you will thank the masters for the juicy and delicious spiritual nourishment they have bestowed upon us. In the face of the materialistic and increasingly noisy world today, with the light of classics, you will find the most suitable way of survival for yourself. "Strong Coffee" selectively "abridges" and "condenses" the original works, preserving the essence of the masterpieces while maintaining their core themes. Accompanied by classic film discs and uniformly annotated alternative Chinese translations of the characters in the works, it allows you to appreciate the classics and savor life in the fast-paced modern world. Let the literary classics accompany us on our long journey of life! Let us get lost in the classics, find tranquility in the classics, and gain enlightenment through the classics! Crime and Punishment is written by Fyodor Dostoevsky, a Russian writer born in 1826 and died in 1881. Rodion Raskolnikov is a poor student in St. Petersburg. He meticulously plans a crime: he kills an old widow and her step-sister, who ran a pawn shop, with an axe and steals some jewelry from their apartment. During his conversation with Porfiry, the investigator in charge of the murder case, Raskolnikov defends himself, elaborating on his theory: a genius can achieve their goals by any means, and he believes himself to be a genius. Svidrigailov arrives in St. Petersburg. When Dunya was hired by him as a governess, she suffered greatly. Raskolnikov is deeply troubled. He goes to the police station. Raskolnikov turns himself in to the police and is sentenced to eight years of hard labor in Siberia. Dunya and Razumikhin successfully run a publishing business and get married. Sonya follows Raskolnikov to Siberia and lives in a village near the exile camp. Because she is very kind to Raskolnikov and other prisoners, everyone calls her Sonya, the little mother. With her help, Raskolnikov begins a new life.