A truly great translation. . .This English version . . .really is better.A. N. Wilson,The Spectator

Nominated as one of Americas best-loved novels by PBSs The Great American Read

This acclaimed new translation of Dostoyevskys psychological record of a crime gives his dark masterpiece of murder and pursuit a renewed vitality, expressing its jagged, staccato urgency and fevered atmosphere as never before. Raskolnikov, a destitute and desperate former student, wanders alone through the slums of St. Petersburg, deliriously imagining himself above societys laws. But when he commits a random murder, only suffering ensues. Embarking on a dangerous game of cat and mouse with a suspicious police investigator, Raskolnikov finds the noose of his own guilt tightening around his neck. Only Sonya, a downtrodden prostitute, can offer the chance of redemption.

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A gripping new translation of Dostoyevskys masterpiece, in a striking Graphic Deluxe edition

Will I reallyI mean, reallyactually take an axe, start bashing her on the head, smash her skull to pieces?Will I really slip in sticky, warm blood, force the lock, steal, tremble, hide, all soaked in bloodaxe in hand?Lord, will I really?

This new translation of Dostoyevskys psychological record of a crime gives his dark masterpiece of murder and pursuit a renewed vitality, expressing its jagged, staccato urgency and fevered atmosphere as never before.

Raskolnikov, a destitute and desperate former student, wanders through the slums of St. Petersburg, poverty driving him to imagine himself above conventional moral law. But when he commits a random murder without remorse or regret, only suffering ensues. Embarking on a dangerous game of cat and mouse with a suspicious police investigator, Raskolnikov is pursued by the growing voice of his conscience and finds the noose of his own guilt tightening around his neck. Only Sonya, a downtrodden prostitute, can offer the chance of redemption.

A truly great translation. . .This English version . . .really is better.A. N. Wilson,The Spectator

Nominated as one of Americas best-loved novels by PBSsThe Great American Read