Crime and Punishment

Cover page
Halftitle page
Series page
Title page
Copyright page
Contents
Introduction
Dostoevsky’s Life
St Petersburg: Literary and Social Contexts
Motives for Murder: The Ideological Context
The Divided Self
Doubles
‘Realism in a Higher Sense’
Note on the Translation
Note on the Table of Ranks
Select Bibliography
A Chronology of Fyodor Dostoevsky
Map
Other
CRIME AND PUNISHMENT
List of Principal Characters
Explanatory Notes

Fyodor Dostoevsky

Nicolas Pasternak Slater has translated several works by Boris Pasternak, most recently The Family Correspondence, 1921-1960 (Hoover Press, 2010). For Oxford World's Classics he has translated Lermontov's A Hero of Our Time and Tolstoy's The Death of Ivan Ilyich and Other Stories. Sarah J. Young is Senior Lecturer in Russian at the School of Slavonic and East European Studies, University College London, where she teaches and researches nineteenth- and twentieth-century Russian literature, culture and thought. She is the author of Dostoevsky's 'The Idiot' and the Ethical Foundations of Narrative (Anthem Press, 2004), and co-editor of Dostoevsky on the Threshold of Other Worlds (Bramcote Press, 2006).

"Stylistic precision and neatness are qualities of Slater's translation... This is an ideal edition to prescribe for senior high school and undergraduate teaching... Young's Introduction lays a good foundation for readers who are new to Dostoevsky, and neatly covers all the major aspects of the novel in its historical context, within the editorial constraints of a translation." - Slobodanka Vladiv-Glover, Australian Book Review

"Superb... the Oxford University Press edition is beautifully produced and competitively priced." - Donald Rayfield, Times Literary Supplement