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Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky & Richard Pevear

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Crime and Punishment

The New Translation by Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky

by Fyodor Dostoyevsky & Richard Pevear

Narrator Bill Homewood

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Translator Larissa Volokhonsky

Length 28 hours 4 minutes

Language English

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Hailed by Washington Post Book World as “the best [translation] currently available" when it was first published, this audio edition of Crime and Punishment has been newly recorded for 2025.

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.

This audio edition of Crime and Punishment is read by award-winning narrator Bill Homewood, with audio engineering by Blake Rook. It was produced and published by Echo Point Books & Media, an independent bookseller in Brattleboro, Vermont.

Classics Fiction Mystery & Thriller

Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoyevsky (1821-1881) was a Russian novelist, short story writer, essayist, journalist and philosopher. Dostoevsky's literary works explore human psychology in the troubled political, social, and spiritual atmosphere of 19th-century Russia, and engage with a variety of philosophical and religious themes.