Crime and Punishment Audiobook By Fyodor Dostoevsky, Richard Pevear - translator, Larissa Volokhonsky - translator cover art

Crime and Punishment

The New Translation by Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky

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Crime and Punishment

By: Fyodor Dostoevsky, Richard Pevear - translator, Larissa Volokhonsky - translator
Narrated by: Bill Homewood
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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.

©2012 Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky (P)2025 Echo Point Books & Media, LLC
Classics World Literature
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Amazing novel with an amazing narrator. The last few chapters were especially moving. Would recommend this to anyone that loves a long novel to listen to while driving/cooking/running.

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I purchased the previous version of this translation by P&V, only to be disappointed by the narration. Apparently others felt the same because this audiobook has been re-released with a different narrator. I give high marks to this performance.

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Fascinating… at times a bit rambling on seemingly unrelated parts. The takes a deep dive into the minds of all of his characters the varying rationality of their decision making. Looking forward to a second read through in a couple of years. Great performance by Bill Homewood.

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The narrator I give 5 stars. The story 3/5 stars. At times I struggled to get through it.

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