title: Crime and Punishment (Oxford World's Classics Hardback Collection)
author: Fyodor Dostoevsky
description: <br />"Oxford University Press recently added three of the most acclaimed czarist era novels to its Classics Hardback Collection: Leo Tolstoy's <em>Anna Karenina</em> and <em>War and Peace</em> and Fyodor Dostoyevsky's <em>Crime and Punishment</em>. 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." - <em>The Shepherd Express</em> <br />
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  CRIME
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  PlJNISHMEl^T
  FYODOR DOSTOYEVSKY
  Translated from the Russian by CONSTANCE Garnett
  With an introduction by Ernest J. Simmons
  Professor of Russian Literature and
  Executive Officer
  Department of Slavic Languages
  Columbia University
  VIIVTAGE BOOKS
  A DIVISION OF RANDOM HOUSE
  NEW YORK
  
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  First Vintage Edition, June, 1962
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  are published by ALFRED A. Knopf, Inc.
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  INTRODUCTION
  By ERNEST
  J. SIMMONS
  The twenty-four-year-old
  Dostoyevsky,
  his
  head
  in
  a
  whirl, had
  just
  left the house of the famous
  critic, Vissarion
  Belinsky, a man whose
  favorable opinion any young author
  would have prized in the Russia of those days.