Crime and Punishment

Petersburg, carries out his grotesque scheme and plunges into a hell of persecution, madness and terror. A desperate young man plans the perfect crime -- the murder of a despicable pawnbroker, an old women no one loves and no one will mourn. Raskolnikov, an impoverished student living in a garret in the gloomy slums of St. Is it not just, he reasons, for a man of genius to commit such a crime, to transgress moral law -- if it will ultimately benefit humanity? So begins one of the greatest novels ever written: a powerful psychological study, a terrifying murder mystery, a fascinating detective thriller infused with philosophical, religious and social commentary. Crime And Punishment takes the reader on a journey into the darkest recesses of the criminal and depraved mind, and exposes the soul of a man possessed by both good and evil a man who cannot escape his own conscience.

Get Ready The two popular translations of ‘Crime and Punishment’ before the 1993 translation by Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky, were by Constance Garnett and David McDuff. The Pevear/Volokhonsky translation became my favourite – until Oliver Ready’s translation came along. Not knowing a word of Russian, I declare my favourite only by. Great translation of a classic book Colin Crime and Punishment is one of my favorite books, and this is a great translation with an awesome cover.It's right up there with Pevear/Volokhonsky's C&P and Brother's Karamazov.Some parts of Ready's translation flow better while the same part falls flat in P&V's version, and vice-versa.. Papa Frank said A Psychological Thriller. The only thing that kept me from doing a 5-star rating was the difficulty in keeping track of characters, a drawback in other Russian novels I've read, too. Perhaps I should have started a list of characters, but that would have felt too much like reading in preparation for class discussion. However, Kindle's "X-Ray" feature was very helpful whenever I wa

Dostoyevsky's penetrating novel of an intellectual whose moral compass goes haywire, and the detective who hunts him down for his terrible crime, is a stunning psychological portrait, a thriller and a profound meditation on guilt and retribution. . Of his pawnbroker he takes a different view, and in deciding to do away with her he sets in motion his own tragic downfall. Mired in poverty, the student Raskolnikov nevertheless thinks well of himself