Crime and Punishment

26 hrs. 15 min.

Classics

Language Russian

Author Fyodor Dostoevsky

Narrator Sergey Gorbunov

Description

MediaBook Studio presents an audiobook of the famous Russian writer Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky’s “Crime and Punishment.” The novel, translated into almost all languages of the world, has been adapted for film countless times, and many internationally renowned writers openly claim they are students of Fyodor Dostoevsky.

The total circulation of the work reaches tens of millions of copies. This is one of those books that’s worth rereading more than once.

The book is read by the popular director, performer, and voice-dubbing actor Sergey Gorbunov.

“Raskolnikov is truly a Russian person in that he reached the very end, the edge of the road into which his misguided mind led him. This trait of Russian people—this trait of extraordinary seriousness, as if religiousness, with which they devote themselves to their ideas—is the reason for many of our troubles.”

Nikolay Strakhov, “Our Fine Literature”

“Why, what business do I want to meddle with, and at the same time what trifles frighten me!—he thought with a strange smile. — Hmm… yes… everything depends on a person, and yet he carries away everything past his nose, only—only because of one cowardice… That’s an axiom… It’s interesting what people fear most. A new step, a new word of their own—they fear that the most… And besides, I talk too much. That’s why I do nothing, because I talk. Though perhaps this is how it is: I talk because I do nothing. In this last month I learned to talk, lying for whole days in the corner and thinking… about King Pea. Why am I going now? Can I do it? Is it serious? Not at all serious. Just to amuse myself with a fantasy; toys! Yes, probably even toys!”

F.M. Dostoevsky, “Crime and Punishment”