Crime and Punishment
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.’
