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Crime and Punishment (Vintage Classics) Paperback – March 2, 1993

by Fyodor Dostoevsky (Author), Richard Pevear (Translator), Larissa Volokhonsky (Translator)
4.7 4.7 out of 5 stars 4,230 ratings
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Hailed by Washington Post Book World as “the best [translation] currently available" when it was first published, this second edition of Crime and Punishment has been updated in honor of the 200th anniversary of Dostoevsky’s birth. • ONE OF TIME MAGAZINE'S 100 BEST MYSTERY AND THRILLER BOOKS OF ALL TIME

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, Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky offer a brilliant translation of Crime and Punishment, Dostoevsky's astounding pyschological thriller, newly revised for his bicentenniel. 

In Crime and Punishment, when Raskolnikov, an impoverished student living in the St. Petersburg of the tsars, commits an act of murder and theft, he sets into motion a story that is almost unequalled in world literature for its excruciating suspense, its atmospheric vividness, and its depth of characterization and vision. Dostoevsky’s drama of sin, guilt, and redemption transforms the sordid story of an old woman’s murder into the nineteenth century’s profoundest and most compelling philosophical novel.
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    565 pages
  2. Language
    English
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    Vintage
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    March 2, 1993
  5. Reading age
    18 years and up
  6. Dimensions
    5.16 x 1.1 x 7.95 inches
  7. ISBN-10
    0679734503
  8. ISBN-13
    978-0679734505
  9. Lexile measure
    900L
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4.7 out of 5 stars
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Customers find the translation quality eminently readable and masterful. They describe the book as a good, thoughtful read with solid advice. Readers describe the story as awesome, exhilarating, and interesting. They also say the characters are complex and relatable. Additionally, they describe the book as hauntingly beautiful and eye-opening. However, some customers report missing pages.

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73 customers mention "Translation quality"60 positive13 negative

Customers find the translation quality of the book eminently readable, well-written, and masterfully written. They say the translators do an excellent job showing how Dostoevsky paints a picture for us. Readers also mention the book is detailed and simple to read.

"...Dostoevsky's writing is both gripping and thought-provoking, drawing you into the mind of Raskolnikov as he navigates his moral dilemmas...." Read more

"...This book taught me many lessons that can be applied to many different areas of my life, but most of it provided an immense amount of entertainment...." Read more

"...Garnett, which on scanning the first few pages, had the stiffly sophisticated tone I'd come to expect from 19th century novels and a compulsive..." Read more

"I was a bit surprised how simple it was to read this book. I thought it was going to be a complicated read...." Read more

62 customers mention "Readability"56 positive6 negative

Customers find the book good, thoughtful, and amazing from start to finish. They say it provides solid advice and entertains them for hours. Readers also mention the characters are well-developed and believable.

"...edition brings the story to life with its beautiful design and quality print...." Read more

"...This novel will entertain you for hours, it is not too difficult to read and will provide you with questions to contemplate for hours while you are..." Read more

"...and philosophically loaded dialogue; making it a heavy but never dense reading experience...." Read more

"...needed this book for her Honors ELA class, and she actually really enjoyed the read." Read more

39 customers mention "Story quality"36 positive3 negative

Customers find the story awesome, exhilarating, and interesting. They say it resonates and explores the inner demons we all carry around. Readers also mention the book is more engaging and a good psychological and theoretical read.

"...Dostoevsky's writing is both gripping and thought-provoking, drawing you into the mind of Raskolnikov as he navigates his moral dilemmas...." Read more

"...There are many complex ideas presented in the novel, especially by Raskolnikov, and diving into them with a friend would be a very enjoyable time...." Read more

"...Like a Dickens novel, Crime & Punishment contains enormously entertaining murder plot and, with the added philosophical heft, it's easy to..." Read more

"...and his eventual growth, healing, and acceptance are gripping, thrilling, beautiful, evocative, endearing, and above all else, inspiring...." Read more

14 customers mention "Character depth"14 positive0 negative

Customers find the characters very deep, well-developed, and interesting. They also say every character has a distinct voice.

"...The characters are complex and relatable, making you reflect on your own values and decisions...." Read more

"...Dostoevky has a way of creating the most complex and interesting characters I have ever met within the pages of a novel...." Read more

"...I thought it was going to be a complicated read. I enjoyed the characters and found the main character to be in the position of madness despite..." Read more

"...The writing was outstanding. Every character has such a distinct voice that you know exactly who is talking without having to be told who it is..." Read more

13 customers mention "Beauty"13 positive0 negative

Customers find the book hauntingly beautiful, eye-opening, and enchanting. They say it's full of human brilliance, torment, and grace. Readers also mention the book is thought-provoking and illustrates Raskolnikov's madness well.

"...This Vintage Classics edition brings the story to life with its beautiful design and quality print...." Read more

"...his inner turmoil was very interesting to see, and was very eye opening in many ways...." Read more

"...me everything that a really great novel should be: entertaining, thought provoking, beautiful...." Read more

"...eventual growth, healing, and acceptance are gripping, thrilling, beautiful, evocative, endearing, and above all else, inspiring...." Read more

6 customers mention "Value for money"6 positive0 negative

Customers find the book to be worth the purchase price and a good buy.

"One of the nicest soft covers I’ve seen and at a great price" Read more

"...I consider it to have been worth the purchase price." Read more

"...My son needed it for school , so I'm glad we could fine it at a great price." Read more

"required reading for high school...good buy" Read more

5 customers mention "Pacing"5 positive0 negative

Customers find the pacing of the book fine and full. They mention it's a great psychological analysis of crime, guilt, sorrow, shame, and redemption. Readers also say the author presents a masterful examination of the human condition, the decisions people make when in it, and offers a great hope.

"...you read this novel because Dostoevsky presents a masterful examination of the human condition, the decisions people make when in the deepest..." Read more

"...record of working through adversity, maintaining a positive and solution oriented mindset, and being successful in life. Great advice. Great read...." Read more

"...because it explores the inner demons we all carry around while offering a great hope. The translation worked very well and was easily readable." Read more

"...complex the characters are and how fine and full the exploration of human behavior and thought...." Read more

8 customers mention "Missing pages"0 positive8 negative

Customers say the book has missing pages.

"...I realized when reading that it was missing 32 pages...." Read more

"...this novel and at least one student has come to me with the complaint of missing pages...." Read more

"...I don’t know, let me think…Oh right! It’s missing like 33 pages towards the end of the book. Pages 475to 506 are NOT in this book...." Read more

"...However, this book was missing 30 pages in the final chapter... That was really annoying, as I couldn't finish the book...." Read more

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One of the best fictional novels I have ever read. It's well-written. Truly an exploration of the mind of a murderer and a highly dysfunctional individual. So much depth to the characters. Highly recommend if you are interested in the study of the human mind, what it means to be good and evil and the grays in between, religion, Russia, and classical literature.
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Bartek
5.0 out of 5 stars Crime and Punishment: A Masterpiece of Psychological Depth!
Reviewed in the United States on October 21, 2024
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"Crime and Punishment" by Fyodor Dostoevsky is a profound exploration of morality, guilt, and redemption. This Vintage Classics edition brings the story to life with its beautiful design and quality print. The characters are complex and relatable, making you reflect on your own values and decisions. Dostoevsky's writing is both gripping and thought-provoking, drawing you into the mind of Raskolnikov as he navigates his moral dilemmas. This novel is a timeless classic that everyone should read at least once in their lifetime. Highly recommended!
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Crime and Punishment was my first dive into the world of classic literature. I had never read any of Fyodor Dostoevsky's work, and had no idea what to expect going into this novel. I haven't been an avid reader in a couple years, but over the past few months I have read more books than I had in years. Crime and Punishment was a fantastic novel to reignite my love for reading. Richard Prevear and Larissa Volokhonsky’s translation of Dostoevsky's writing was fantastic, every sentence was crafted masterfully. Dostoevky has a way of creating the most complex and interesting characters I have ever met within the pages of a novel. One thing I felt was somewhat difficult throughout the novel was keeping all the characters straight. The names are all very long, and are Russian names, which for me, as an English speaker, sometimes they are hard to keep track of. The deeper I got into the novel, the easier it got. I never realized there were three different names people could go by in Russia until I read this novel, and that’s not including nicknames. Raskolnikov is one of the most interesting characters I think I have ever met in any form of entertainment. A very interesting aspect from my perspective was that Raskolnokiv, the main character, was clearly suffering from some type of mental illness, to me it seemed it was either bi polar disorder, and/or schizophrenia. In my life right now I know someone very close to me suffering from similar symptoms, and it was very interesting to see correlating personality traits between this person I know and Roskolnikov. I would most definitely recommend you read this novel. This novel will entertain you for hours, it is not too difficult to read and will provide you with questions to contemplate for hours while you are not reading. There are certain sections in the novel that seem to drag on, but end up being filled with an abundance of important information that end up enhancing the novel. This novel will leave you craving to get back to it the moment you set it down. I found myself staying up much later than I had intended on multiple occasions due to getting lost in the pages of this book. Everything in this book feels so real. As someone who is interested in psychology and the human experience, reading about Raskolnikov trying to navigate human relationships while battling his inner turmoil was very interesting to see, and was very eye opening in many ways. This book taught me many lessons that can be applied to many different areas of my life, but most of it provided an immense amount of entertainment. This is definitely the type of novel you want a friend to be reading at the same time as you, to give you someone to discuss with. There are many complex ideas presented in the novel, especially by Raskolnikov, and diving into them with a friend would be a very enjoyable time. Crime and Punishment is a fantastic novel that I am so glad I read. It is a beautifully crafted story, displaying psychological quandaries, the questioning of morality, as well as exploring human beings and their unique experiences. Crime and Punishment definitely got me excited to read another work by Dostoevsky, “The Brothers Karamazov.”
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Garrett O'Neill
5.0 out of 5 stars Returning to Crime & Punishment
Reviewed in the United States on July 24, 2013
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I was eighteen when I first read Crime & Punishment. It was the end of my freshman year of college and over the course of the last two semesters I had been introduced to a constant stream of new novels, authors and genres in and outside the classroom, accelerating me from an avid reader to a voracious one. Dostoevsky loomed large over a lot of the writers I loved at the time: particularly Hemingway and Kerouac. Crime & Punishment had already long been on my radar as a weighty Russian tome and one of the great works of world literature. So I was surprised by Bantam's pocket sized volume translated by Constance Garnett, which on scanning the first few pages, had the stiffly sophisticated tone I'd come to expect from 19th century novels and a compulsive readability presented in its breathless opening pages. Plus, it was on sale for something like five bucks, so what the hell.

That first reading of Crime & Punishment proved to be one of the most important literary experiences of my life. I read rapturously over the course of a few summer days, carrying the book about in a back pocket, and finished it around 6 am one morning. It seemed to me everything that a really great novel should be: entertaining, thought provoking, beautiful. A year of intro philosophy classes had convinced me I was some kind of original thinker, or at least a conscientious atheist. But Dostoevsky's take on spiritualism and religion gave me real pause; and despite a year's worth of railing against organized religion as the bane of all existence, the image of the murderer and prostitute reading the story of Lazarus together proved enormously powerful. In the end Crime & Punishment didn't convert me or bring me back to any kind of religious doctrine, but it did have a huge impact on the way I thought about fiction and viewed the world - a sensation I'm always looking for in books, but only a small handful have ever successfully accomplished.

So reading Crime & Punishment proved to be a pretty good idea, and much to my delight it seemed a fairly universal notion amongst my undergraduate peers. I can't think of many other books that have been read by so many people I've encountered and, maybe more astonishing, were deeply moved by it. Of course, there's always the stray dissenter. Vladimir Nabokov famously didn't think much of Dostoevsky, but then, he didn't like music either, so there's little accounting for taste.

For whatever reason, Dostoevsky started coming up in a lot of recent conversations, and it occurred to me that it had almost been a decade since my first and only read of Crime & Punishment. I've become well acquainted with a good deal of Dostoevsky's subsequent work, along with the writings of his fellow countrymen, so I knew it was vital to pick up the translation by Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky and, having become addicted to my Kindle Paperwhite, downloaded the e-book so I could recreate the read-on-the-go experience should the book sweep me up a second time.

To be honest, I was a little worried how well Crime & Punishment would stand up ten years later. After all, tastes change, and in the past I have been dismayed by how radically my opinion of a fondly recollected novel can take a turn for the worse on rereading. But from the opening description of Raskolnikov descending from his crappy little apartment into the streets of St. Petersburg I was hooked all over again.

But while I found all the major plot points and characters had stuck in my brain through the years, I was surprised how much smaller the novel's scale seemed; sort of like visiting a house that seemed enormous as a kid but shrunk in scale on visiting as an adult. In his introduction, Richard Pevear explains that Dostoevsky built the novel with the structure of theater in mind. I doubt I would have made this astute observation on my own, and yet it became the unavoidable lens I reread the novel through.

Crime & Punishment takes place in a very hermetic universe of small dingy rooms, chance encounters, rapid action, and philosophically loaded dialogue; making it a heavy but never dense reading experience. This philosophical bent tends to be the most common point of complaint amongst critics. Novels with a metaphysical agenda are often populated by flat characters who act as little more than mouthpieces for the author. Rascolnikov, in particular, is much more an idea than a person, whose true crime is his modern intellectual arrogance rather than the murder which derives from his hubris. But Dostoevsky populates his novel with a supporting cast that creates an incredibly rich illustration of 19th century poverty, as well as the existential comedy and despair that would color the coming century. Again, the Pevear introduction relates how Crime & Punishment grew out of an earlier novel, The Drunks, which Dostoevsky had been struggling with. It's the vestiges of this previous novel that are, for my money, the most fascinating aspects of Crime & Punishment, and reminiscent of another 19th century master, Charles Dickens.

Like a Dickens novel, Crime & Punishment contains enormously entertaining murder plot and, with the added philosophical heft, it's easy to understand why the novel is so appealing to undergrads. The aforementioned Dostoesky hater, Vladimir Nabokov, believed that a serious reader is, in fact, a rereader. For a long time I've found myself almost panicked by the overabundance of books I want and feel the need to read, and disregarding a few exceptions which I've obsessed over, I have never defined myself as much of a rereader. But this second look at Crime & Punishment has definitely changed how I'll choose to read in the future. There's a magic that comes with reading Dostoevsky, and I cannot recommend the experience or reliving the experience enough.
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Annie Delgado
4.0 out of 5 stars First time reading Dostoevsky
Reviewed in the United States on September 3, 2024
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I was a bit surprised how simple it was to read this book. I thought it was going to be a complicated read. I enjoyed the characters and found the main character to be in the position of madness despite being known as a gentleman to his fellow peers. I’m glad I finally read it.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Great read.
Reviewed in the United States on September 21, 2024
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My daughter needed this book for her Honors ELA class, and she actually really enjoyed the read.
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C.Y. Li
5.0 out of 5 stars Awesome.
Reviewed in Canada on June 20, 2024
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A great translation of a great book.
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5.0 out of 5 stars perfection
Reviewed in Brazil on April 25, 2024
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came fast and in perfect conditions
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Luis Fernando Mendoza Martínez
5.0 out of 5 stars Excelente
Reviewed in Mexico on December 20, 2023
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El libro llegó impecable, sin ninguna mancha, golpe o alguna hoja rasgada. La impresión es muy buena.

Lectura muy recomendable.
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Emily Helal
5.0 out of 5 stars A psychological masterpiece that delves deep into the human psyche
Reviewed in Egypt on September 29, 2024
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In this Russian classic novel, Dostoevsky takes readers on a thought-provoking journey through morality, guilt, ego, redemption and the complexities of human nature.
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5.0 out of 5 stars awesome
Reviewed in Germany on December 6, 2022
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ive seen some posts and videos about kafka and dostoevsky for a while now and i could absolutely relate to what theyve written. and i saw a review about this book. it sounded interesting and kind of intrigued me. and even though im really not into reading books this was really worth it. like i love the book <33 definitely gonna buy more similar to this ! also watch bungou stray dogs (although they rlly dont have anything to do w each other, the anime was the first time i heard about dostoevsky and i liked him there. if i hadnt liked him in the anime i wouldnt have ended up reading up the author dostoevsky and his books, biography, etc :D)
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