- Published: 6 July 1993
- ISBN: 9780099981909
- Imprint: Vintage Classics
- Format: Paperback
- Pages: 592
- RRP: $19.99
Crime and Punishment
The old woman was merely a sickness... it wasn't a human being I killed, it was a principle!
TRANSLATED BY RICHARD PEVEAR & LARISSA VOLOKHONSKY
'The old woman was merely a sickness . . .it wasn't a human being I killed, it was a principle!'
A troubled young man commits the perfect crime - the murder of a vile pawnbroker whom no one will miss. Raskolnikov is desperate for money, but convinces himself that his motive for the murder is to benefit mankind. So begins one of the greatest novels ever written, a journey into the criminal mind, a police thriller, and a philosophical meditation on morality and redemption.
- Published: 6 July 1993
- ISBN: 9780099981909
- Imprint: Vintage Classics
- Format: Paperback
- Pages: 592
- RRP: $19.99
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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
Dostoevsky's finest masterpiece
John Bayley
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
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
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
This fresh, new translation...provides a more exact, idiomatic, and contemporary rendition of the novel that brings Fyodor Dostoevsky's tale achingly alive... It succeeds beautifully
San Francisco Chronicle