Fyodor Dostoevsky, Richard Pevear (Translated by), Larissa Volokhonsky (Translated by)
Hailed byWashington Post Book Worldas “the best [translation] currently available" when it was first published, this second edition ofCrime and Punishmenthas been updated in honor of the 200th anniversary of Dostoevsky’s birth. •ONE OFTIME MAGAZINE'S 100 BEST MYSTERY AND THRILLER BOOKS OF ALL TIME
With the same suppleness, energy, and range of voices that won their translation ofThe Brothers Karamazovthe PEN/Book-of-the-Month Club Prize, Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky offer a brilliant translation ofCrime and Punishment,Dostoevsky's astounding pyschological thriller, newly revised for his bicentenniel.
InCrime and Punishment, when Raskolnikov, an impoverished student living in the St. Petersburg of the tsars, commits an act of murder and theft, he sets into motion a story that is almost unequalled in world literature for its excruciating suspense, its atmospheric vividness, and its depth of characterization and vision. Dostoevsky’s drama of sin, guilt, and redemption transforms the sordid story of an old woman’s murder into the nineteenth century’s profoundest and most compelling philosophical novel.
