Crime and Punishment
“Crime and Punishment” by Fyodor Dostoevsky is a reprint edition published by Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group on March 2, 1993. This 624-page book is presented in English and explores the psychological turmoil of Raskolnikov, an impoverished student in St. Petersburg who commits murder and theft. The narrative delves into themes of sin, guilt, and redemption, offering a profound examination of human nature and moral dilemmas.
Readers will find a richly detailed story that combines elements of fiction and psychological exploration. The translation by Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky captures the energy and complexity of Dostoevsky’s original work, making it accessible to contemporary audiences. This edition commemorates the 200th anniversary of Dostoevsky’s birth and invites readers to engage with one of the most significant literary works of the 19th century, characterized by its suspenseful plot and deep character development.
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Hailed by Washington Post Book World as “the best [translation] currently available” when it was first published, this second edition of Crime and Punishment has been updated in honor of the 200th anniversary of Dostoevsky’s birth. • ONE OF TIME MAGAZINE‘S 100 BEST MYSTERY AND THRILLER BOOKS OF ALL TIME
With the same suppleness, energy, and range of voices that won their translation of The Brothers Karamazov the PEN/Book-of-the-Month Club Prize, Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky offer a brilliant translation of Crime and Punishment, Dostoevsky’s astounding pyschological thriller, newly revised for his bicentenniel.
In Crime 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.
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