Crime and Punishment - Wordsworth Deluxe Author:Fyodor Dostoevsky, Constance Garnett (Translator) The story of a murder committed on principle, of a killer who wishes to set himself outside and above society. It is marked by Dostoevsky's own harrowing experience in penal servitude, and yet contains moments of wild humour. — Worldwide literature classic, among top 100 literary novels of all time. A must read for everybody.In the 1980s, Ita... more »lo Calvino (the most-translated contemporary Italian writer at the time of his death) said in his essay "Why Read the Classics?" that "a classic is a book that has never finished saying what it has to say", without any doubt this book can be considered a Classic This book is also a Bestseller because as Steinberg defined: "a bestseller as a book for which demand, within a short time of that book's initial publication, vastly exceeds what is then considered to be big sales".« less