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  • Constance Garrett was a horrible translator. It's a shame to ruin such a great novel by reading such an awful translation from Garrett. To enjoy this book, please please please (!!) read the text as translated by another source. The Pevear / Volokhonsky Translation is much closer to the original. ... Continue

    Constance Garrett was a horrible translator. It's a shame to ruin such a great novel by reading such an awful translation from Garrett. To enjoy this book, please please please (!!) read the text as translated by another source. The Pevear / Volokhonsky Translation is much closer to the original.

    

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  • This is easily my favorite work of Dostoevksy's. I loved The Brothers Karamazov, but this is a shorter, equally compelling version. The story moves, in ways that are slow and subtle and these subtle motions build up all the momentum that's released in an amazing ending. This is a book that really ou ... Continue

    This is easily my favorite work of Dostoevksy's. I loved The Brothers Karamazov, but this is a shorter, equally compelling version. The story moves, in ways that are slow and subtle and these subtle motions build up all the momentum that's released in an amazing ending. This is a book that really ought to be required reading.

    

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  • Best Book Ever

  • This is the best novel I ever read. There is no greater piece of literature.

    

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  • Memorable.

    

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  • xx, 564 p. ; 21 cm.1st Vintage classics ed

    

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A desperate young man plans the perfect crime -- the murder of a despicable pawnbroker, an old women no one loves and no one will mourn. Is it not just, he reasons, for a man of genius to commit such a crime, to transgress moral law -- if it will ultimately benefit humanity? So begins one of the greatest novels ever written: a powerful psychological study, a terrifying murder mystery, a fascinating detective thriller infused with philosophical, religious and social commentary. Raskolnikov, an impoverished student living in a garret in the gloomy slums of St. Petersburg, carries out his grotesque scheme and plunges into a hell of persecution, madness and terror. Crime And Punishment takes the reader on a journey into the darkest recesses of the criminal and depraved mind, and exposes the soul of a man possessed by both good and evil ... a man who cannot escape his own conscience.

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