Crime and Punishment (Oxford World's Classics) - Hardcover

Dostoevsky, F. M.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 060055161X ISBN 13: 9780600551614

Publisher: Littlehampton Book Services Ltd, 1987

Synopsis

DIFFERENT OFFER (see description & picture by BookGems): Edition Oxford Classics published by Oxford University Press, 1980. Translation by Jessie Coulson, with an Introduction by John Jones. Complete in ONE volume. 530 pages. HARDBACK. The unread book appears to be well preserved, remains in very good conditon throughout: dark blue faux leather hard cover with gilt decoration on front cover and letteringson spine remains intact, text all clean, neat and tight. Prompt dispatch from UK

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"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

"The best Ýtranslation 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"

"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"

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""

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"

About the Author

Fyodor Mikailovich Dostoevsky s life was as dark and dramatic as the great novels he wrote. He was born in Moscow in 1821. A short first novel, Poor Folk(1846) brought him instant success, but his writing career was cut short by his arrest for alleged subversion against Tsar Nicholas I in 1849. In prison he was given the silent treatment for eight months (guards even wore velvet soled boots) before he was led in front a firing squad. Dressed in a death shroud, he faced an open grave and awaited execution, when suddenly, an order arrived commuting his sentence. He then spent four years at hard labor in a Siberian prison, where he began to suffer from epilepsy, and he returned to St. Petersburg only a full ten years after he had left in chains.
His prison experiences coupled with his conversion to a profoundly religious philosophy formed the basis for his great novels. But it was his fortuitous marriage to Anna Snitkina, following a period of utter destitution brought about by his compulsive gambling, that gave Dostoevsky the emotional stability to completeCrime and Punishment(1866), The Idiot(1868-69), The Possessed(1871-72), andThe Brothers Karamazov(1879-80). When Dostoevsky died in 1881, he left a legacy of masterworks that influenced the great thinkers and writers of the Western world and immortalized him as a giant among writers of world literature."

About this edition

• Publisher: Littlehampton Book Services Ltd
• Publication date: 1987
• ISBN 10: 060055161X
• ISBN 13: 9780600551614
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 527