A FRESH TRANSLATION FOR A NEW GENERATION Raskolnikov is broke, desperate, and brilliant. Convinced that extraordinary people live beyond ordinary morality, he commits a brutal murder to prove his theory. What follows is one of literature's greatest descents into guilt, paranoia, and the agonizing possibility of redemption. Crime and Punishment is not homework. It's a psychological thriller, a philosophical puzzle, and a story about whether the worst of us can become something better. This translation lets you experience it the way Dostoevsky's first readers as a page-turner you can't put down. WHAT MAKES THIS TRANSLATION DIFFERENT Contemporary prose that reads like a novel written todayFaithful to the original Russian while prioritizing impactNo Victorian archaisms, no academic stiffnessThe first complete new translation in over a decadeSince Constance Garnett's pioneering 1914 translation, readers have debated the best way into Pevear and Volokhonsky's fidelity? McDuff's accessibility? Oliver Ready's elegance? This new translation enters the conversation with a different readability without compromise. ABOUT THE TRANSLATOR Henry Bugalho is a philosopher, writer, and translator. A Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts and holder of a Master's degree in Rhetoric from Universidad Internacional de La Rioja, he has translated Homer's Odyssey, Machiavelli's The Prince, Descartes' Meditations, Plato, and Hesiod, and published over thirty books across multiple languages. "One of the supreme masterpieces of world literature" — TIME Magazine