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Fyodor Dostoevsky

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Fyodor Dostoevsky was born in Moscow in 1821. Renowned as a writer and journalist during his lifetime, he spent four years in a Siberian prison camp, and six years of compulsory military service in exile, in punishment for his membership of an intellectual group critical of the tsarist regime. A compulsive gambler who was at times reduced to begging for money from family and friends, he nevertheless produced masterpieces of psychological and existential fiction including Crime and Punishment, The Idiot, The Brothers Karamazov and Notes from the Underground, as well as short stories and novellas.

Nicolas Pasternak Slater was brought up bilingual in Russian by his mother Lydia, a sister of Boris Pasternak. He has translated Dostoevsky's Crime and Punishment, Boris Pasternak's Doctor Zhivago and an anthology of Lydia Pasternak's writings, as well as translations of work by Pushkin and Tolstoy. He has also translated collections of short stories by Ivan Turgenev and Anton Chekhov for Pushkin Press.

Maya Slater has translated and edited work by Molière, and edited her husband Nicolas Pasternak Slater's translations of work by Boris Pasternak. She is a Senior Research Fellow of Queen Mary University of London.

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Crime and Punishment book cover

Crime and Punishment

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Glæpur og Refsing book cover

Glæpur og Refsing

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Notes from Underground book cover

Notes from Underground

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Zločin A Trest book cover

Zločin A Trest

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Coireacht agus Pionós book cover

Coireacht agus Pionós

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The Brothers Karamazov book cover

The Brothers Karamazov

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Crime e Castigo book cover

Crime e Castigo

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Misdaad En Straf book cover

Misdaad En Straf

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Crime et Châtiment book cover

Crime et Châtiment

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Verbrechen Und Strafe book cover

Verbrechen Und Strafe

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Delitto e Castigo book cover

Delitto e Castigo

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White Night (Spanish Edition) book cover

White Night (Spanish Edition)

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White Nights and Other Stories book cover

White Nights and Other Stories

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The Brothers Karamazov book cover

The Brothers Karamazov

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क्राइम एंड पनिशमेंट - Crime and Punishment book cover

क्राइम एंड पनिशमेंट - Crime and Punishment

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Crime and Punishment book cover

Crime and Punishment

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White Nights (Warbler Classics Annotated Edition) book cover

White Nights (Warbler Classics Annotated Edition)

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The Brothers Karamazov: A New Translation by Michael R. Katz book cover

The Brothers Karamazov: A New Translation by Michael R. Katz

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Uncle'S Dream And The Permanent Husband book cover

Uncle'S Dream And The Permanent Husband

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White Nights And Other Stories Vol. 10 book cover

White Nights And Other Stories Vol. 10

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