Crime And Punishment: Pevear & Volokhonsky Translation (Vintage Classics)

Crime And Punishment: Pevear & Volokhonsky Translation (Vintage Classics)

Nominated as one of America?s best-loved novels by PBS?s The Great American ReadWith the same suppleness, energy, and range of voices that won their translation of The Brothers Karamazov the PEN/Book-of-the-Month Club Prize, Pevear and Volokhonsky offer a brilliant translation of Dostoevsky's classic novel that presents a clear insight into this astounding psychological thriller. "The best (translation) currently available"--Washington Post Book World.From Publishers WeeklyAn acclaimed new translation of the classic Russian novel.Copyright 1993 Reed Business Information, Inc.Review?The best [translation ofCrime 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 TribuneFrom the Inside FlapWith the same suppleness, energy, and range of voices that won their translation of The Brothers Karamazov the PEN/Book-of-the-Month Club Prize, Pevear and Volokhonsky offer a brilliant translation of Dostoevsky's classic novel that presents a clear insight into this astounding psychological thriller. "The best (translation) currently available"--Washington Post Book World.About the AuthorFyodor 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,