Crime And Punishment Best English Translation - April 2024

Crime and Punishment: Pevear & Volokhonsky Translation (Vintage Classics)

Nominated as one of America’s best-loved novels by PBS’s The Great American ReadWith the same suppleness, energy, and range of voices that won their translation of The Brothers Karamazov the PEN/Book-of-the-Month Club Prize, Pevear and Volokhonsky offer a brilliant translation of Dostoevsky's classic novel that presents a clear insight into this astounding psychological thriller. "The best (translation) currently available"--Washington Post Book World.

• ASIN: 0679734503
• ASIN: 0679734503
• ISBN: 0679734503
• Brand: Vintage
• Manufacturer: Vintage

Crime and Punishment: A New Translation

As featured on PBS's The Great American ReadAn event to be celebrated, a “rare Dostoesvsky translation” (William Mills Todd III, Harvard University) that fully captures the literary achievements of the original.Published to great acclaim and fierce controversy in 1866, Fyodor Dostoevsky’s Crime and Punishment has left an indelible mark on global literature and our modern world, and is still known worldwide as the quintessential Russian novel. Readers of all backgrounds have debated its historical, cultural, and spiritual dimensions, probing the moral and ethical dilemmas that Dostoevsky ... [Read More]

• ASIN: 1631490338
• UPC: 001631490338
• ASIN: 1631490338
• ISBN: 1631490338
• Manufacturer: Liveright

Crime and Punishment (Vintage Classics)

A troubled young man commits the perfect crime: the murder of a vile pawnbroker whom no one will miss. Raskolnikov is desperate for money, but he convinces himself that his motive for the murder is to benefit mankind. So begins a tragic novel that illuminates the eternal struggle between human emotions and desire, and the harsh laws of ethics and justice. Part thriller and part philosophical meditation, this is a penetrating look at the core of human nature.

• ASIN: 0099981904
• ASIN: 0099981904
• ISBN: 9780099981909
• Brand: imusti
• Manufacturer: Random House UK

Crime and Punishment

The two years before he wrote Crime and Punishment (1866) had been bad ones for Dostoyevsky. His wife and brother had died; the magazine he and his brother had started, Epoch, collapsed under its load of debt; and he was threatened with debtor's prison. With an advance that he managed to wangle for an unwritten novel, he fled to Wiesbaden, hoping to win enough at the roulette table to get himself out of debt. Instead, he lost all his money; he had to pawn his clothes and beg friends for loans to pay his hotel bill and get back to Russia. One of his begging letters went to a magazine editor, ... [Read More]

• ASIN: 0486415872
• UPC: 800759415878
• ASIN: 0486415872
• ISBN: 0486415872
• Brand: Fyodor Dostoevsky
• Manufacturer: Dover Publications

Crime and Punishment (Oxford World's Classics Hardback Collection)

"One death, in exchange for thousands of lives - it's simple arithmetic!"A new translation of Dostoevsky's epic masterpiece, Crime and Punishment (1866). The impoverished student Raskolnikov decides to free himself from debt by killing an old moneylender, an act he sees as elevating himself above conventional morality. Like Napoleon he will assert his will and his crime will be justified by its elimination of "vermin" for the sake of the greater good. But Raskolnikov is torn apart by fear, guilt, and a growing conscience under the influence of his love for Sonya. Meanwhile the police detective... [Read More]

• ASIN: 0198709706
• ASIN: 0198709706
• ISBN: 0198709706
• Brand: OXFORD
• Manufacturer: Oxford University Press

The Stranger

• ASIN: 0679720200
• ASIN: 0679720200
• ISBN: 9780679720201
• Brand: Vintage
• Manufacturer: Vintage

The Idiot (Everyman's Library)

In The Idiot, the saintly Prince Myshkin returns to Russia from a Swiss sanatorium and finds himself a stranger in a society obsessed with wealth, power, and sexual conquest. He soon becomes entangled in a love triangle with a notorious kept woman, Nastasya, and a beautiful young girl, Aglaya. Extortion and scandal escalate to murder, as Dostoevsky’s “positively beautiful man” clashes with the emptiness of a society that cannot accommodate his innocence and moral idealism. The Idiot is both a powerful indictment of that society and a rich and gripping masterpiece. From award-winning tran... [Read More]

• ASIN: 0375413928
• ASIN: 0375413928
• ISBN: 0375413928
• Brand: Everyman s Library
• Manufacturer: Everyman's Library

The Brothers Karamazov (Everyman's Library)

Dostoevsky’s last and greatest novel is, above all, the story of a murder, told with hair-raising intellectual clarity and a feeling for the human condition unsurpassed in world literature. It is a masterpiece that chronicles the bitter love-hate struggle between an outsized father and his three very different sons.The author's towering reputation as one of the handful of thinkers who forged the modern sensibility has sometimes obscured the purely novelistic virtues – brilliant characterizations, flair for suspense and melodrama, instinctive theatricality – that made his work so imme... [Read More]

• ASIN: 0679410031
• ASIN: 0679410031
• ISBN: 0679410031
• Brand: Everyman s Library
• Manufacturer: Everyman's Library

He Lover of Death

Senka Skorikov, orphan and urchin, has been abandoned to the murky world of Moscow's gangster district. While picking a pocket or two, he glimpses the most beautiful woman he has ever seen, and joins the gang of her overlord lover, The Prince, so desperate he is to meet her. Senka climbs the criminal ranks, uncovering a stash of precious metal, and gradually capturing the heart of his beloved Death - so named for the life expectancy of her lovers. But as the bandit community balks at his success on both fronts, threats on his life begin to pour in . A dandy and his 'Chinese' sidekick seem to b... [Read More]

• ASIN: 0753828065
• ASIN: 0753828065
• ISBN: 0753828065
• Manufacturer: Phoenix

The Winter Queen

This is the first book featuring Erast Fandorin, the famous gentleman sleuth. Moscow 1876. A young law student commits suicide in broad daylight in Moscow's Alexander Gardens. But this is no ordinary death, for the young man was the son of an influential industrialist and has left a considerable fortune. Erast Fandorin, a hotheaded new recruit to the Criminal Investigation Department, is assigned to the case. Brilliant, young, and sophisticated, Fandorin embarks on an investigation that will take him from the palatial mansions of Moscow to the seedy backstreets of London in his hunt for the co... [Read More]

• ASIN: 0753817594
• ASIN: 0753817594
• ISBN: 0753817594
• Brand: Orion Publishing Co
• Manufacturer: Orion Pub Co

The State Counsellor (Erast Fandorin 6)

Unusual book

• ASIN: 0753826429
• ASIN: 0753826429
• ISBN: 9780753826423
• Manufacturer: Phoenix

Murder on the Leviathan

This dryly humorous historical mystery was a bestseller in Russia. Lord Littleby and nine members of his Parisian household were brutally murdered and Littleby's gold image of Shiva stolen. The killer's trail leads over the water to the posh British liner Leviathan. Commissioner Gustave Gauche and the Russian diplomat Erast

• ASIN: 0753818434
• ASIN: 0753818434
• ISBN: 0753818434
• Manufacturer: Orion Pub Co

The Diamond Chariot: Erast Fandorin 10 [Paperback] Boris Akunin,B. Akunin

An Erast Fandorin Mystery. Russia, 1905. Russia is locked in a bloody war with Japan. As enemy spies converge on St. Petersburg, Fandorin is called to investigate an explosion on a railway bridge. Trailing a suspect to Moscow, the detective comes face to face with more adversaries than he's ever met with before. But can he prevent murder on the Trans-Siberian Express?

• ASIN: 0753828197
• UPC: 000753828197
• ASIN: 0753828197
• ISBN: 9780753828199
• Manufacturer: Phoenix (an Imprint of The Orion Publishing Group

The Brothers Karamazov

Winner of the Pen/Book-of-the-Month Club Translation PrizeThe Brothers Karamasov is a murder mystery, a courtroom drama, and an exploration of erotic rivalry in a series of triangular love affairs involving the “wicked and sentimental” Fyodor Pavlovich Karamazov and his three sons―the impulsive and sensual Dmitri; the coldly rational Ivan; and the healthy, red-cheeked young novice Alyosha. Through the gripping events of their story, Dostoevsky portrays the whole of Russian life, is social and spiritual striving, in what was both the golden age and a tragic turning point in Russian cultur... [Read More]

• ASIN: 0374528373
• ASIN: 0374528373
• ISBN: 0374528373
• Brand: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
• Manufacturer: Farrar, Straus and Giroux

The Trial

Written in 1914 but not published until 1925, a year after Kafka’s death, The Trial is the terrifying tale of Josef K., a respectable bank officer who is suddenly and inexplicably arrested and must defend himself against a charge about which he can get no information. Whether read as an existential tale, a parable, or a prophecy of the excesses of modern bureaucracy wedded to the madness of totalitarianism, The Trial has resonated with chilling truth for generations of readers.

• ASIN: 0805210407
• ASIN: 0805210407
• ISBN: 0805210407
• Brand: Schocken
• Manufacturer: Schocken