From the Award-Winning translators Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky 'The best translation currently available' -Washington Post A troubled young man commits the perfect crime - the murder of a vile pawnbroker no one will miss. Raskólnikov is desperate for money but convinces himself that his motive for the killing is to benefit mankind. So begins one of the greatest novels ever written, a journey into the criminal mind, a police thriller, and a philosophical meditation on morality and redemption. 'Dostoevsky's finest masterpiece' -John Bayley Includes a foreword and notes