Crime and Punishment

A gripping new translation of Dostoyevsky’s masterpiece—in a striking Graphic Deluxe Edition

This acclaimed new translation of Dostoyevsky’s “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 society’s 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.

FYODOR DOSTOYEVSKY (1821–1881) was a Russian novelist, journalist, and short-story writer whose novels Crime and Punishment and The Brothers Karamazov rank among the greatest of the nineteenth century.

OLIVER READY is a consultant editor at the Times Literary Supplement (London) and a research fellow in Russian society and culture at St. Antony’s College, Oxford. He won the Rossica Translation Prize for his translation of The Prussian Bride by Yuri Buida.

ZOHAR LAZAR is a frequent contributor of illustrations to the New Yorker, Rolling Stone, Esquire, GQ, and the New York Times Magazine.