Crime and Punishment

Review The best [translation of Crime and Punishment] currently available...An especially faithful re-creation...with a coiled-spring kinetic energy...Don t miss it. Washington Post Book World This fresh, new translation...provides a more exact, idiomatic, and contemporary rendition of the novel that brings Fyodor Dostoevsky s tale achingly alive...It succeeds beautifully. San Francisco Chronicle Reaches as close to Dostoevsky s Russian as is possible in English...The original s force and frightening immediacy is captured...The Pevear and Volokhonsky translation will become the standard English version. Chicago Tribune --Chicago Tribune Product Description Fyodor Dostoyevsky's Crime and Punishment, described as both a historical reflection and a psychological investigation of the human psyche's dark corners, is one of the author's timeless pieces and one of world literature's classics. This new edition puts Crime and Punishment at the reader's fingertips. About the Author Fyodor Dostoyevsky (1821-1881), one of nineteenth-century Russia's greatest novelists, spent four years in a convict prison in Siberia, after which he was obliged to enlist in the army. In later years his penchant for gambling sent him deeply into debt. Most of his important works were written after 1864. David McDuff was educated at the University of Edinburgh and has translated a number of works for Penguin Classics, including Dostoyevsky's The Brothers Karamazov.