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by F.M. Dostoevsky (Author), David McDuff (Introduction), D. McDuff (Translator) "TOWARDS the end of a sultry afternoon early in July a young man came out of his little room in Stolyarny Lane and turned slowly..." (more)
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  • Paperback: 656 pages
  • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd; New edition edition (29 Aug 1991)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0140445285
  • ISBN-13: 978-0140445282
  • Product Dimensions: 19.6 x 12.7 x 2.8 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 4.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (76 customer reviews)
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A new translation to replace David Magarshack's version, first published in 1951. The new edition includes explanatory notes of the text to aid the readers' understanding. The author also wrote "The House of the Dead" and "Poor Folk and Other Stories".


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Fyodor Dostoevsky was born in Moscow on 11th November 1821. He had six siblings and his mother died in 1837 and his father in 1839. He graduated from the St Petersburg Academy of Military Engineering in 1846 but decided to change careers and become a writer. His first book, Poor Folk, did very well but on 23rd April 1849 he was arrested for subversion and sentenced to death. After a mock-execution his sentence was commuted to hard labour in Siberia where he developed epilepsy.He was released in 1854. His 1860 book, The House of the Dead was based on these experiences. In 1857 he married Maria Dmitrievna Isaeva. After his release he adopted more conservative and traditional values and rejected his previous socialist position. In the following years he spent a lot of time abroad, struggled with an addiction to gambling and fell deeply in debt. His wife died in 1864 and he married Anna Grigoryeva Snitkina. In the following years he published his most enduring and successful books, includingCrime and Punishment (1865). He died on 9th February 1881. --This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition.
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23 of 23 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars By far the BEST TRANSLATION of one of the true masterpieces, 2 Oct 2003
This review is from: Crime and Punishment: A Novel in Six Parts with Epilogue (Vintage Classics) (Paperback)
I read the Wordsworth Classics translation of Crime and Punishment when I was 16 and thought it was awful. I could not understand why this book was considered such a masterpiece. Afterwards I read the Penguin translation by David McDuff. It was much better. A good read, and I realised the importance of a good translation. Then I came across the Vintage edition by Richard Pevear. Its brilliant!! By far the best. The Penguin edition by comparison is stitled, unfluent, and the language is quite dated. Pevear's translation reads like a modern novel, and you feel the passion, the darkness, the cerebral torments of Dostoevsky's characters. Its impossible to hype this book enough. It is quite simply one of the greatest novels ever written and this translation does it justice. Most bookstores will have numerous copies of the Penguin edition. Ignore it, and get hold of the Vintage one. Its miles better!
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18 of 18 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars A fine prospect, 29 April 2005
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Undoubtedly this is a remarkable book and not at all what I was expecting as I first picked it up. I would recommend that the reader cast aside any preconceived ideas about this author and about the mid-Victorian era in which his story takes place, because this book really does have a very modern feel and a very accessible and easy prose and dialogue.

The reader first joins the tale as the morose, dejected down-and-out and former student Raskolnikov contemplates, and is inexorably drawn towards and fixated by the idea of, murdering an old lady pawnbroker with whom he has had business. It only becomes clear later exactly why he did so, and even then his justifications are misguided and muddled in his own mind and essentially some flight of fancy about the permissibility of any behaviour for the greater good - a means to an end, as it were.

But what is most fascinating is not the crime itself or the murderer's fate, but how his crime then comes to obsess him until he can stand it no longer and has been defeated by his own inner struggle with his conscience, which has been forever tormenting him. The dual between Porfiry Petrovich, the police investigator, and Raskolnikov and the mind games and double bluffs that are played on both sides as our antihero tries to evade detection is particularly intriguing. The suspense is palpable.

All in all this is a pretty bleak tale of suffering and a heart-rending one at that. But there is not just introspection, self-examination and 'philosophising' here, but also action, suspense, pathos and genuine sorrow in the ending, which managed to be profound without being sentimental or melodramatic.
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4.0 out of 5 stars Deep and intense, 6 Dec 2002
This review is from: Crime and Punishment (Penguin Popular Classics) (Paperback)
This book is a superb piece of literature, Dostoyevsky's style - intentse, vivid, compelling - draws you into the inner world of the protaganist, the introspective student Raskolnikov, as he rationalises and debates with himself, before, during and after his terrible crime. Once you are drawn into this inner realm, Dostoyevsky leads you deeper and deeper spiraling into the dark recesses of the mind.

Not only is the book multi-layered, tackling many issues: moral, judicial, cultural, social and providing an excellent expose of the human psyche, but it is a book with a page turning plot.

This combination of Dostoyevsky's prose and the issues with which he deals and the tense story line results in a compelling, gripping and absorbing read.

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