Crime and Punishment

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

• 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

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.