Crime and Punishment (Vintage Classics)
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| Rating | : | 4.38 (835 Votes) |
| Asin | : | B008QLVMTI |
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| Number of Pages | : | 113 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2016-01-26 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
With the same suppleness, energy, and range of voices that won their translation of The Brothers Karamazov the PEN/Book-of-the-Month Club Prize, Pevear and Volokhonsky offer a brilliant translation of Dostoevsky's classic novel that presents a clear insight into this astounding psychological thriller. "The best (translation) currently available"--Washington Post Book World.
My review is more for the edition than the book itself Mary Does anyone comb through these reviews looking for actual discussions of the plot? If so, I apologize - my rating is purely for this specific edition. I had initially downloaded a cheapie Kindle version of C&P until two separate friends peer pressured me into getting "the only version worth reading", the Pevear and Volokhonsky translation. I begrudgingly did so, dropping the extra $, and I found it to be an excellent translation - tons of footnotes, explanations, the prose itself was smooth. "Returning to Crime & Punishment" according to Garrett Swink. I was eighteen when I first read Crime & Punishment. It was the end of my freshman year of college and over the course of the last two semesters I had been introduced to a constant stream of new novels, authors and genres in and outside the classroom, accelerating me from an avid reader to a voracious one. Dostoevsky loomed large over a lot of the writers I loved at the time: particularly Hemingway and Kerouac. Crime & Punishment had already long been on my radar as a weighty Russian tome a. A classic edition Paul L. Grimes Wonderful translation with very informative footnotes