Crime and Punishment

Author: Fyodor Dostoevsky

Title: Crime and Punishment

Binding: Paperback

Number Of Pages: 592

Release Date: 2018-12-01

Details: "These are the voices of Crime and Punishment in all their original, dazzling variety: pensive, urgent, defiant, and triumphant. This new translation by Michael Katz revives the intensity Dostoevsky's first readers experienced." -Susan McReynolds, Northwestern University

"Mesmerizingly good . . . the best, truest translation of Dostoevsky's masterpiece into English. It's a magnificent, almost terrifying achievement of translation, one that makes its predecessors, however worthy, seem safe and polite." -Steve Donoghue, Open Letters Monthly
This Norton Critical Edition includes:
o Michael Katz's "superb" (Times Literary Supplement) new translation of the world's most-read Russian novel accompanied by his preface and detailed explanatory footnotes.
o Names of principal characters, a note on characters' names, and a map of St. Petersburg.
o Key excerpts from Dostoevsky's notebooks, letters, and his early draft of Part II, Chapter 2.
o Twenty-six scholarly essays on the novel from Russian, European, and American sources.
o A chronology and a selected bibliography.

About the Series

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EAN: 9780393264272

Package Dimensions: Height: 9.3 Inches, Length: 5.6 Inches, Weight: 0.9259415004 Pounds, Width: 0.7 Inches