Crime and Punishment

Mesmerizingly good . . . the best, truest translation of Dostoevskys masterpiece into English. Its a magnificent, almost terrifying achievement of translation, one that makes its predecessors, however worthy, seem safe and polite. Steve Donoghue, Open Letters Monthly This Norton Critical Edition includes: Michael Katzs superb (Times Literary Supplement) new translation of the worlds most-read Russian novel accompanied by his preface and detailed explanatory footnotes. Names of principal characters, a note on characters names and a map of St. Petersburg. Key excerpts from Dostoevskys notebooks, letters and his early draft of Part II, Chapter 2. Twenty-six scholarly essays on the novel from Russian, European and American sources. A chronology and a selected bibliography.