Crime and Punishment (The Modern Library of the World's Best Books, ML 199)

xix, [1], 531, [1] pp. 8-page terminal publisher ad. Translated from the original Russian by Constance Garnett, with an introduction by Ernest J. Simmons. Jacket art by Paul Galdone. "Mired in poverty, the student Raskolnikov nevertheless thinks well of himself. Of his pawnbroker he takes a different view, and in deciding to do away with her he sets in motion his own tragic downfall. Dostoyevsky's penetrating novel of an intellectual whose moral compass goes haywire, and the detective who hunts him down for his terrible crime, is a stunning psychological portrait, a thriller and a profound meditation on guilt and retribution."