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Crime and Punishment
Series: The Norton Library
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Mesmerizingly good – the best, truest translation of Dostoevsky's masterpiece into English. It's a magnificent, almost terrifying achievement of translation, one that makes its predecessors, however worthy, seem safe and polite.
– STEVE DONAGHUE, Open Letters Monthly
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Book Details
INFORMATION
ISBN: 9780393427950
Publisher: WW Norton & Co
Format: Paperback / softback
Date Published: 10 October 2020
Country: United States
Imprint: WW Norton & Co
Contributors:
- Translated by Michael R. Katz
- Translated by Michael R. Katz
- Translated by Michael Katz
Audience: Tertiary education
DIMENSIONS
Spine width: 28.0mm
Width: 130.0mm
Height: 198.0mm
Weight: 411g
Pages: 592
About the Author
Fyodor Dostoevsky wrote The Brothers Karamazov, Crime and Punishment, The Idiot, and many other novels. Michael R. Katz is the C. V. Starr Professor Emeritus of Russian and East European Studies at Middlebury College. He has translated over twenty Russian novels, including The Brothers Karamazov, Crime and Punishment, Fathers and Children, and Notes from Underground.
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