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  • Paperback: 448 pages
  • Publisher: Penguin Books; New Ed edition (24 Jan 2007)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0140621806
  • ISBN-13: 978-0140621808
  • Product Dimensions: 17.6 x 11 x 2.2 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 4.6 out of 5 stars See all reviews (71 customer reviews)
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Raskolnikov, a destitute and desperate former student, wanders through the slums of St Petersburg and commits a random murder without remorse or regret. He imagines himself to be a great man, a Napoleon: acting for a higher purpose beyond conventional moral law. But as he embarks 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.

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Richard Peace is Emeritus Professor of Russian at Bristol University. He is the author of Dostoevsky: An Examination of his Major Novels.
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21 of 21 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars By far the BEST TRANSLATION of one of the true masterpieces, 2 Oct 2003
This review is from: Crime and Punishment: A Novel in Six Parts with Epilogue (Vintage Classics) (Paperback)
I read the Wordsworth Classics translation of Crime and Punishment when I was 16 and thought it was awful. I could not understand why this book was considered such a masterpiece. Afterwards I read the Penguin translation by David McDuff. It was much better. A good read, and I realised the importance of a good translation. Then I came across the Vintage edition by Richard Pevear. Its brilliant!! By far the best. The Penguin edition by comparison is stitled, unfluent, and the language is quite dated. Pevear's translation reads like a modern novel, and you feel the passion, the darkness, the cerebral torments of Dostoevsky's characters. Its impossible to hype this book enough. It is quite simply one of the greatest novels ever written and this translation does it justice. Most bookstores will have numerous copies of the Penguin edition. Ignore it, and get hold of the Vintage one. Its miles better!
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17 of 17 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars A fine prospect, 29 April 2005
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Undoubtedly this is a remarkable book and not at all what I was expecting as I first picked it up. I would recommend that the reader cast aside any preconceived ideas about this author and about the mid-Victorian era in which his story takes place, because this book really does have a very modern feel and a very accessible and easy prose and dialogue.

The reader first joins the tale as the morose, dejected down-and-out and former student Raskolnikov contemplates, and is inexorably drawn towards and fixated by the idea of, murdering an old lady pawnbroker with whom he has had business. It only becomes clear later exactly why he did so, and even then his justifications are misguided and muddled in his own mind and essentially some flight of fancy about the permissibility of any behaviour for the greater good - a means to an end, as it were.

But what is most fascinating is not the crime itself or the murderer's fate, but how his crime then comes to obsess him until he can stand it no longer and has been defeated by his own inner struggle with his conscience, which has been forever tormenting him. The dual between Porfiry Petrovich, the police investigator, and Raskolnikov and the mind games and double bluffs that are played on both sides as our antihero tries to evade detection is particularly intriguing. The suspense is palpable.

All in all this is a pretty bleak tale of suffering and a heart-rending one at that. But there is not just introspection, self-examination and 'philosophising' here, but also action, suspense, pathos and genuine sorrow in the ending, which managed to be profound without being sentimental or melodramatic.
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4.0 out of 5 stars Deep and intense, 6 Dec 2002
This book is a superb piece of literature, Dostoyevsky's style - intentse, vivid, compelling - draws you into the inner world of the protaganist, the introspective student Raskolnikov, as he rationalises and debates with himself, before, during and after his terrible crime. Once you are drawn into this inner realm, Dostoyevsky leads you deeper and deeper spiraling into the dark recesses of the mind.

Not only is the book multi-layered, tackling many issues: moral, judicial, cultural, social and providing an excellent expose of the human psyche, but it is a book with a page turning plot.

This combination of Dostoyevsky's prose and the issues with which he deals and the tense story line results in a compelling, gripping and absorbing read.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Outstanding book - Buy it!
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5.0 out of 5 stars A True Classic
In plot this book is true to it's title, but it could be misleading, as Dostoyevsky's last and greatest novel is so much more than a tale of crime and retribution. Read more
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5.0 out of 5 stars "The worlds greatest murder story"
His best novel, better than 'The Brothers Karamazov' this is nihilism at its best; deeply intense and masterful.
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Very disappointing. Far too drawn out in quite a few places. Was well into it in parts and nodding off in others. Read more
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5.0 out of 5 stars To Be Napoleon
What justifies murder? This question runs through C&P. Raskolnikov is a "former student" fallen on hard times. Read more
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5.0 out of 5 stars Deep and relevant
Crime and Punishment beautifully captures moods and moments to guide the reader through the book as though we were truly looking through Roskolnikov's eyes. Read more
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3.0 out of 5 stars Somewhat lacking...
Basically a story about guilt and redemption written with absolutely compelling characters and depth. Read more
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2.0 out of 5 stars An unenjoyable read
I found this book to be unenjoyable. I could appreciate that it is very well written and would have been very ahead of it's time but also found it to be unnecessarily drawn out... Read more
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