Fyodor Dostoyevsky\'s seminal classic, now back in a beautiful hardcover edition designed by Coralie Bickford-Smith.
This edition of Crime and Punishment also includes a new chronology of Dostoyevsky\'s life and work..
This vivid translation by David McDuff has been acclaimed as the most accessible version of Dostoyevsky\'s great novel, rendering its dialogue with a unique force and naturalism.
Only Sonya, a downtrodden prostitute, can offer the chance of redemption.
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.
He imagines himself to be a great man, a Napoleon: acting for a higher purpose beyond conventional moral law.
Nominated as one of America\'s best-loved novels by PBS\'s The Great American Read Raskolnikov, a destitute and desperate former student, wanders through the slums of St Petersburg and commits a random murder without remorse or regret.
Fyodor Dostoyevsky\'s seminal classic, now back in a beautiful hardcover edition designed by Coralie Bickford-Smith
