Crime And Punishment (Vintage Classic Russians Series)

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.
Raskolnikov,
an impoverished student living in the St. Petersburg of the tsars, is
determined to overreach his humanity and assert his untrammeled individual
will. When he commits an act of murder and theft, he sets into motion a story
that, for its excruciating suspense, its atmospheric vividness, and its depth
of characterization and vision is almost unequaled in the literatures of the
world. The best known of Dostoevsky’s masterpieces, Crime
and Punishment can bear any amount of rereading without losing
a drop of its power over our imaginations.
Award-winning
translators Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky render this elusive and
wildly innovative novel with an energy, suppleness, and range of voice that do
full justice to the genius of its creator.