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Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky’s masterful translation of The Idiot is destined to stand with their versions of Crime and Punishment, The Brothers Karamazov , and Demons as the definitive Dostoevsky in English. After his great portrayal of a guilty man in Crime and Punishment... read more

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First Sentence

At about nine o'clock one morning, at the end of November, during a thaw, a train of the St Petersburg-Warsaw line was approaching St Petersburg at full steam.

Authors & Contributors

  1. Fyodor Dostoevsky (Author)

Other Contributors:

  1. Constance Garnett (Translator)
  2. David McDuff (Translator)
  3. Fyodor Dostoevsky
 

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