Crime and Punishment (Deluxe Hardbound Edition)

Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky provide a magnificent translation of Dostoevskys extraordinary psychological thriller newly updated for his bicentennial 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. When Raskolnikov a poor student living in tsarist St. Petersburg commits a murder and robbery he sets in motion an almost unparalleled drama in world literature for its nail-biting suspense and atmospheric vividness characterization and vision. The horrible narrative of an old womans murder is transformed into the nineteenth centurys most profound and engaging philosophical work by Dostoevskys drama of sin shame and redemption.