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Vintage Crime: "Crime and Punishment", "Ripley's Game"

Paperback

Main Details

Title Vintage Crime: "Crime and Punishment", "Ripley's Game"
Authors and Contributors      By (author) F. M. Dostoevsky
By (author) Patricia Highsmith
Translated by Richard Pevear
Translated by Larissa Volokhonsky
Physical Properties
Format:Paperback
Dimensions(mm): Height 200,Width 131
Category/GenreModern and contemporary fiction (post c 1945)
Classic fiction (pre c 1945)
ISBN/Barcode 9780099511366
Audience
General

Publishing Details

Publisher Vintage
Imprint Vintage Classics
Publication Date 2 August 2007
Publication Country United Kingdom

Description

"Vintage Crime" is a limited edition gift pack which consists of beautifully designed separate volumes of "Crime and Punishment" by Fyodor Dostoevsky and Patricia Highsmith's thrilling novel "Ripley's Game." "Vintage Crime" is just one of ten "Vintage Classic Twins" to collect. Each twin consists of two books: a specially designed limited edition of one modern classic title and one established classic work. The books in each pair have been carefully selected to provide a thought-provoking combination. "Crime and Punishment": A troubled young man commits the perfect crime. Raskolnikov is desperate for money, but convinces himself that his motive for murder is to benefit mankind. So begins one of the greatest novels ever written, a journey into the criminal mind, a police thriller, and a meditation on morality and redemption. "Ripley's Game": Tom Ripley detested murder. Uunless it was absolutely necessary. If possible, he preferred someone else to do the dirty work. In this case someone with no criminal record, who would commit 'two simple murders' for a very generous fee.

Author Biography

Fyodor Dostoevsky was born in Moscow on 11th November 1821. He had six siblings and his mother died in 1837 and his father in 1839. He graduated from the St Petersburg Academy of Military Engineering in 1846 but decided to change careers and become a writer. His first book, Poor Folk, did very well but on 23rd April 1849 he was arrested for subversion and sentenced to death. After a mock-execution his sentence was commuted to hard labour in Siberia where he developed epilepsy. He was released in 1854. His 1860 book, The House of the Dead was based on these experiences. In 1857 he married Maria Dmitrievna Isaeva. After his release he adopted more conservative and traditional values and rejected his previous socialist position. In the following years he spent a lot of time abroad, struggled with an addiction to gambling and fell deeply in debt. His wife died in 1864 and he married Anna Grigoryeva Snitkina. In the following years he published his most enduring and successful books, includingCrime and Punishment (1865). He died on 9th February 1881. Patricia Highsmith was born in Fort Worth, Texas in 1921 but moved to New York when she was six. In her senior year she edited the college magazine, having decided to become a writer at the age of sixteen. Her first novel Strangers on a Train, was made into a famous film by Alfred Hitchcock in 1951. Patricia Highsmith died in Locarno, Switzerland in 1995. Her last novel Small g: A Summer Idyll was published posthumously just over a month later