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CRIME AND PUNISHMENT
by FYODOR DOSTOEVSKY

Translated By Constance Garnett

TRANSLATOR'S PREFACE
A few words about Dostoevsky himself may help the English reader to
understand his work.
Dostoevsky was the son of a doctor. His parents were very hard-
working and deeply religious people, but so poor that they lived with
their five children in only two rooms. The father and mother spent their
evenings in reading aloud to their children, generally from books of a
serious character.
Though always sickly and delicate Dostoevsky came out third in the
final examination of the Petersburg school of Engineering. There he
had already begun his first work, "Poor Folk."
This story was published by the poet Nekrassov in his review and was
received with acclamations. The shy, unknown youth found himself
instantly something of a celebrity. A brilliant and successful career
seemed to open before him, but those hopes were soon dashed. In 1849

he was arrested.
Though neither by temperament nor conviction a revolutionist,
Dostoevsky was one of a little group of young men who met together to
read Fourier and Proudhon. He was accused of "taking part in
conversations against the censorship, of reading a letter from Byelinsky
to Gogol, and of knowing of the intention to set up a printing press."
Under Nicholas I. (that "stern and just man," as Maurice Baring calls
him) this was enough, and he was condemned to death. After eight
months' imprisonment he was with twenty-one others taken out to the
Semyonovsky Square to be shot. Writing to his brother