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  • Constance Garrett was a horrible translator. It's a shame to ruin such a great novel by reading such an awful translation from Garrett. To enjoy this book, please please please (!!) read the text as translated by another source. The Pevear / Volokhonsky Translation is much closer to the original. ... Continue

    Constance Garrett was a horrible translator. It's a shame to ruin such a great novel by reading such an awful translation from Garrett. To enjoy this book, please please please (!!) read the text as translated by another source. The Pevear / Volokhonsky Translation is much closer to the original.

    

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  • I simply could not get into this one.

    

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  • This is easily my favorite work of Dostoevksy's. I loved The Brothers Karamazov, but this is a shorter, equally compelling version. The story moves, in ways that are slow and subtle and these subtle motions build up all the momentum that's released in an amazing ending. This is a book that really ou ... Continue

    This is easily my favorite work of Dostoevksy's. I loved The Brothers Karamazov, but this is a shorter, equally compelling version. The story moves, in ways that are slow and subtle and these subtle motions build up all the momentum that's released in an amazing ending. This is a book that really ought to be required reading.

    

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  • This is the best novel I ever read. There is no greater piece of literature.

    

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  • Memorable.

    

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  • xx, 564 p. ; 21 cm.1st Vintage classics ed

    

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Raskolnikov, a destitute and desperate former student, commits a random murder without remorse or regret, imagining himself to be a great man far above moral law. But as he embarks on a dangerous cat-and-mouse game with a suspicious police investigator, his own conscience begins to torment him and he seeks sympathy and redemption from Sonya, a downtrodden prostitute.

Translated with an Introduction and Notes by David McDuff

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