Description

In Dostoevsky’s great Russian classic, a murder sparks a battle for one man’s soul.

Consumed by the idea of his own special destiny, and immured in poverty and deprivation, Raskolnikov is drawn to commit a terrible crime.
In the aftermath, he is dogged by madness, guilt and a calculating detective. What begins as an act of self-justification becomes a feverish struggle with conscience, suspicion and fear. The only hope for redemption, if Raskolnikov can recognise it, lies in the virtuous and faithful Sonya.
Crime and Punishment is a classic Russian novel about guilt, poverty, morality and the divided self. Dostoevsky turns a story of murder into a profound psychological and philosophical drama, following one man through torment, pride and the possibility of grace. It remains essential reading for anyone interested in Russian classics and moral conflict.
TRANSLATED BY RICHARD PEVEAR AND LARISSA VOLOKHONSKY
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Crime and Punishment...is about a big subject - the meaning of life - yet it is gritty, gripping and it's depiction of city life gives it a modern, timeless feel -- Leila Aboulela, author of The Translator The best translation of Crime and Punishment currently available... An especially faithful re-creation...with a coiled-spring kinetic energy... Don't miss it * Washington Post * Donne, Herbert, Shakespeare, Jane Austen, George Eliot, Dostoevsky, Henry James - these are the great psychologists - far greater than Freud or Klein or Jung -- Sally Vickers Dostoevsky's finest masterpiece * John Bayley * Dostoevsky makes Martin Amis seem as if he was writing 130 years ago and that Dostoevsky is writing now. Read all of Dostoevsky. These books are for now and they matter, because it's up to us to call a halt to our TV producers, politicians, gutless artists, poets and writers: these "teenagers of all ages" who are propelling us towards a consumerist hell of disposability over quality -- Billy Childish