Crime And Punishment By Fyodor Dostoevsky (Paperback, 2014)

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&A truly great translation This English version really is better&
- A N Wilson The Spectator TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT BOOKS OF THE YEAR 2014 This acclaimed new translation of Dostoyevsky&s &psychological record of a crime& gives his dark masterpiece of murder & pursuit a renewed vitality expressing its jagged staccato urgency & fevered atmosphere as never before Raskolnikov a destitute & desperate former student wanders alone through the slums of St Petersburg deliriously imagining himself above society&s laws But when he commits a random murder only suffering ensues Embarking on a dangerous game of cat & mouse with a suspicious police investigator Raskolnikov finds the noose of his own guilt tightening around his neck Only Sonya a downtrodden prostitute can offer the chance of redemption Fyodor Dostoevsky (1821-1881) was born in Moscow & made his name in 1846 with the novella Poor Folk He spent several years in prison in Siberia as a result of his political activities an experience which formed the basis of The House of the Dead In later life he fell in love with a much younger woman & developed a ruinous passion for roulette His subsequent great novels include Notes from Underground Crime & Punishment The Idiot Demons & The Brothers Karamazov Oliver Ready is Research Fellow in Russian Society & Culture at St Antony&s College Oxford He is general editor of the anthology The Ties of Blood Russian Literature from the 21st Century (2008) & Consultant Editor for Russia Central & Eastern Europe at the Times Literary Supplement