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Crime and punishment / Fyodor Dostoevsky ; translated from the Russian by Constance Garnett ; with an introduction by Ernest J. Simmons.
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- ISBN: 0679601007
- ISBN: 9780679601005
- Physical Description: xxiv, 629 p.
- Publisher: New York : Modern Library, 1994.
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| Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references (p. xxiii-xxiv) |
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| Subject: | Classics > Fiction Literary > Fiction |
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