Crime and Punishment (English Edition)

Fjodor Dostojewski

Driven by poverty and an untested philosophy, a young former student commits a crime he believes reason can justify.

What follows is not triumph, but an intense psychological unraveling as Rodion Raskolnikov confronts the inescapable weight of his own conscience.

Dostoevsky’s novel probes the fragile boundary between moral abstraction and lived human responsibility.

Constance Garnett’s English translation is widely regarded as both accomplished and enduringly popular among readers.

This is the English-language edition of the novel.

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Fyodor Dostoevsky. Crime and Punishment. Translated by Constance Garnett. First published in: Russkiy Vestnik, Russia 1866. Constance Garnett’s English translation was first published by William Heinemann, London, 1914.

ISBN: 9783753802961
Januar 2026 – 364 Seiten
Vollständige Neuausgabe (Complete new edition), 1. Auflage (1st edition), Göttingen 2026.

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Famous Quotes

“Taking a new step, uttering a new word is what they fear most.”

Part I, Chapter I, p. 7 of the LIWI edition.

“Poverty is not a vice, that’s a true saying. Yet I know too that drunkenness is not a virtue, and that that’s even truer. But beggary, honoured sir, beggary is a vice.”

Part I, Chapter II, pp. 13–14.

“For every man must have somewhere to go. Since there are times when one absolutely must go somewhere!”

Part I, Chapter II, p. 14.

“Pain and suffering are always inevitable for a large intelligence and a deep heart. The really great men must, I think, have great sadness on earth.”

Part III, Chapter V, p. 179.