Crime and Punishment

by Dostoyevsky, Fyodor
ISBN: 9780241347683
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Fyodor Dostoyevsky's seminal classic, now back in a beautiful hardcover edition designed by Coralie Bickford-Smith. Nominated as one of America's best-loved novels by PBS's The Great American Read

Raskolnikov, a destitute and desperate former student, wanders through the slums of St Petersburg and commits a random murder without remorse or regret. He imagines himself to be a great man, a Napoleon: acting for a higher purpose beyond conventional moral law. But as he embarks on a dangerous game of cat and mouse with a suspicious police investigator, Raskolnikov is pursued by the growing voice of his conscience and finds the noose of his own guilt tightening around his neck. Only Sonya, a downtrodden prostitute, can offer the chance of redemption.


This vivid translation by David McDuff has been acclaimed as the most accessible version of Dostoyevsky's great novel, rendering its dialogue with a unique force and naturalism. This edition of Crime and Punishment also includes a new chronology of Dostoyevsky's life and work.

  • Format: Hardcover
  • Author: Dostoyevsky, Fyodor
  • ISBN: 9780241347683
  • Condition: New
  • Dimensions: 7.90 x 1.80
  • Number Of Pages: 720
  • Publication Year: 2018
Language: English

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  • It would be a crime not to read this book!

    Scarlett S. - 6 years 4 months ago

    I had to read this book for a summer reading assignment. Although I didn't read it because I wanted to, I am SO GLAD that I did. It was amazing. I've seen some other editions and I think this one does the best translating the book from Russian to English because this translation pieces everything so beautifully together. At the surface level, this book is about a man who commits a murder and spends the rest of the book avoiding his punishment (jail). But at a deeper level, the book reveals the true crime that he man committed and the psychological punishment he suffers through. Since the book is set in St. Petersburg, it allows for several interesting characters. All of the characters fell into 3 categories: they angered me because they brought suffering onto others/themselves, I felt sorry for them because they were suffering, or both. Suffering is a recurring subject in the book, but it presents suffering in so many different ways. Overall, an amazing book that I highly recommend. #SummerReading