title: Crime and Punishment: A New Translation
author: Fyodor Dostoevsky
description: A rare Dostoevsky translationa major contribution to the dissemination and understanding of the Russian novel.<br /> - <strong>William Mills Todd III, Harvard University</strong><br /><br />These are the voices of <em>Crime and Punishment</em>, in all their original, dazzling variety: pensive, urgent, defiant, and triumphant. This new translation by Michael Katz revives the intensity Dostoevskys first readers experienced, and proves that <em>Crime and Punishment</em> still has the power to surprise and enthrall us.<br /> - <strong>Susan McReynolds, Northwestern University</strong><br /><br />Mesmerizingly goodthe best, truest translation of Dostoevskys masterpiece into English. Its a magnificent, almost terrifying achievement of translation, one that makes its predecessors, however worthy, seem <em>safe</em> and <em>polite</em>.<br /> - <strong>Steve Donoghue, <em>Open Letters Monthly</em></strong>
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  Crime and Punishment 
  Fyodor Dostoevsky 
   
  Translated By Constance Garnett 
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
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  TRANSLATOR’S PREFACE 
  A few words about Dostoevsky himself may help the 
  English reader to understand his work. 
  Dostoevsky was the son of a doctor. His parents were 
  very hard- working and deeply religious people, but so 
  poor that they lived with their five children in only two 
  rooms. The father and mother spent their evenings in 
  reading aloud to their children, generally from books of a 
  serious character. 
  Though always sickly and delicate Dostoevsky came 
  out third in the final examination of the Petersburg school 
  of Engineering. There he had already begun his first work, 
  ‘Poor Folk.’ 
  This story was published by the poet Nekrassov in his 
  review and was received with acclamations. The shy, 
  unknown youth found himself instan