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- Paperback 448 Pages
- Edition: New
- ISBN-10: 0140621806
- ISBN-13: 9780140621808
- Publisher: Penguin Books
- Pub date: Aug 30, 1998
- Dimensions: 18 cm x 11 cm x 3 cm Just how big is that?
- Also available as: Mass Market Paperback, Paperback, Hardcover, Audio CD, Audio Cassette, Library Binding, School & Library Binding and Others
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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.
I simply could not get into this one.
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.
This is the best novel I ever read. There is no greater piece of literature.
Memorable.
xx, 564 p. ; 21 cm.1st Vintage classics ed