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Crime and Punishment is one of the most important novels of the nineteenth century. It is the story of a murder committed on principle, of a killer who wishes to set himself outside and above society. It is marked by Dostoevsky's own harrowing experience in penal servitude, and yet contains moments of wild humour.

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"One death, in exchange for thousands of lives - it's simple arithmetic!"A new translation of Dostoevsky's epic masterpiece, Crime and Punishment (1866). The impoverished student Raskolnikov decides to free himself from debt by killing an old moneylender, an act he sees as elevating himself above conventional morality. Like Napoleon he will assert his will and his crime will be justified by its elimination of "vermin" for the sake of the greater good. But Raskolnikov is torn apart by fear, guilt, and a growing conscience under the influence of his love for Sonya. Meanwhile the police detective Porfiry is on his trail. It is a powerfully psychological novel, in which the St Petersburg setting, Dostoevsky's own circumstances, and contemporary social problems all play their part.Find the eBook on VitalSource.FeaturesA major new translation of Dostoyevsky's enduring classic by Nicolas Pasternak Slater, with editorial material by the UK's leading Dostoevsky expert, Dr Sarah J. YoungGives a brief biographical sketch of Dostoevsky, focusing on aspects of his life most pertinent to the writing of Crime and Punishment--his experience of prison and the criminals he met there, and his money troubles in the 1860s when he was working on the novelProvides an assessment of critical trends and approaches to the novel, detailing the literary and historical context, with emphasis on the Petersburg setting as a literary theme and a contemporary social contextNotes elucidate potentially obscure references in the text, and also connect the novel to the wider context of Dostoevsky's writing and 19th-century Russian culture, citing other classics of Russian literature and accessible secondary worksABOUT THE SERIESFor over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has made available the widest range of literature from around the globe. Each affordable volume reflects Oxford's commitment to scholarship, providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable features, including expert introductions by leading authorities, helpful notes to clarify the text, up-to-date bibliographies for further study, and much more.

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A major new translation of the classic, by Nicolas Pasternak Slater, with editorial material by leading Dostoevsky expert Dr Sarah J. Young. Ties in with the 100th anniversary of the Russian Revolution.

Author Biography

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 (2013) and Tolstoy's The Death of Ivan Ilyich and Other Stories (2015).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).

Table of Contents

Cover pageHalftitle pageSeries pageTitle pageCopyright pageContentsIntroductionDostoevsky's LifeSt Petersburg: Literary and Social ContextsMotives for Murder: The Ideological ContextThe Divided SelfDoubles'Realism in a Higher Sense'Note on the TranslationNote on the Table of RanksSelect BibliographyA Chronology of Fyodor DostoevskyMapOtherCRIME AND PUNISHMENTList of Principal CharactersExplanatory Notes

Review

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 *

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A new translation of Dostoevsky's epic masterpiece, Crime and Punishment (1866).

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'One death, in exchange for thousands of lives - it's simple arithmetic!' A new translation of Dostoevsky's epic masterpiece, Crime and Punishment (1866). The impoverished student Raskolnikov decides to free himself from debt by killing an old moneylender, an act he sees as elevating himself above conventional morality. Like Napoleon he will assert his will and his crime will be justified by its elimination of'vermin' for the sake of the greater good. But Raskolnikov is torn apart by fear, guilt, and a growing conscience under the influence of his love for Sonya. Meanwhile the police detective Porfiry is on his trail. It is a powerfullypsychological novel, in which the St Petersburg setting, Dostoevsky's own circumstances, and contemporary social problems all play their part.

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"Oxford University Press recently added three of the most acclaimed czarist era novels to its Classics Hardback Collection: Leo Tolstoy's Anna Karenina and War and Peace and Fyodor Dostoyevsky's Crime and Punishment. Each is a new translation prefaced lucidly by an acclaimed scholar in the field. Both Tolstoy and Dostoyevsky, though in increasingly different yet overlapping ways, stirred profound debates on pressing philosophical and spiritual questions, essentially, how to live, especially in a world of accelerating change." - The Shepherd Express

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A major new translation of Dostoyevsky's enduring classic by Nicolas Pasternak Slater and editorial material by the UK's leading Dostoevsky expert, Dr Sarah J. YoungThe introduction gives a brief biographical sketch of Dostoevsky, focusing on aspects of his life most pertinent to the writing of Crime and Punishment - his experience of prison and the criminals he met there, and his money troubles in the 1860s when he was working on the novelProvides an assessment of critical trends and approaches to the novel, detailing the literary and historical context, with emphasis on the Petersburg setting as a literary theme and a contemporary social contextThe list of characters includes information on pronunciation and the range of diminutives used to refer to each characterThe selected bibliography gives an up-to-date survey of works on Dostoevsky, Crime and Punishment, and the historical and cultural contexts of the novelNotes elucidate potentially obscure references in the text, and also connect the novel to the wider context of Dostoevsky's writing and 19th-century Russian culture, citing other classics of Russian literature and accessible secondary works

Details ISBN0198709706 Author Sarah J. Young Series Oxford World's Classics Hardback Collection Language English Year 2017 Translator Nicolas Pasternak Slater ISBN-10 0198709706 ISBN-13 9780198709701 Format Hardcover Publisher Oxford University Press Imprint Oxford University Press Place of Publication Oxford Country of Publication United Kingdom Edited by Sarah J. Young Pages 544 Media Book Subtitle (OWC Hardback) Affiliation Post-Doctoral Fellow and Adjunct Lecturer in Psychology, School of Psychology, University of Nottingham, UK and Bioethics Centre, University of Otago, New Zealand DEWEY 891.733 Edition 2nd Publication Date 2017-09-14 UK Release Date 2017-09-14 NZ Release Date 2017-09-14 Birth 1932 Position Professor and Director Qualifications PhD Alternative 9780198709718 Audience General AU Release Date 2017-09-11 We've got this

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