Crime And Punishment by David Mcduff

Crime And Punishment by David Mcduff

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".

David McDuff's translations for Penguin Classics include Dostoyevsky's Crime and Punishment, The Brothers Karamazov and The Idiot, and Babel's short stories. Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky was born in Moscow in 1821. His debut, the epistolary novella Poor Folk(1846), made his name. In 1849 he was arrested for involvement with the politically subversive 'Petrashevsky circle' and until 1854 he lived in a convict prison in Omsk, Siberia. From this experience came The House of the Dead (1860-2). In 1860 he began the journal Vremya (Time). Already married, he fell in love with one of his contributors, Appollinaria Suslova, eighteen years his junior, and developed a ruinous passion for roulette. After the death of his first wife, Maria, in 1864, Dostoyevsky completed Notes from Underground and began work towards Crime and Punishment (1866). The major novels of his late period are The Idiot (1868), Demons(1871-2) and The Brothers Karamazov (1879-80). He died in 1881.

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ISBN 13	9780140445282
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Title	Crime And Punishment
Author	David Mcduff
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Penguin Books Ltd
Year published	1991-08-29
Number of pages	656
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