Crime and Punishment. The Coulson translation, background and sources, essays in criticism.

Contents Preface vii The Text of Crime and Punishment Crime and Punishment 1 The Names of the Principal Characters 528 Backgrounds and Sources Map: The St. Petersburg of Crime and Punishment 530 From Dostoevsky's Notebooks 532 From Dostoevsky's Letters To A. A. Kraevsky (June 8, 1865) 538 Draft, to M. N. Katkov (Sept., 1865) 538 To A. E. Wrangel (Feb. 18, 1866) 540 To M. N. Katkov (Apr. 25, 1866) 540 To A. V. Korvin-Krukovskaya (June 17, 1866) 541 Essays in Criticism N. Strakhov · [The Nihilists and Raskolnikov's New Idea] 545 Georgy Chulkov · [Dostoevsky's Technique of Writing] 547 K. Mochulsky · [The Five Acts of Crime and Punishment] 553 Ernest J. Simmons · The Art of Crime and Punishment 565 George Gibian · Traditional Symbolism in Crime and Punishment 575 Philip Rahv · Dostoevsky in Crime and Punishment 592 Nicholas Berdyaev · [Dostoevsky, The Nature of Man, and Evil] 616 Vyacheslav Ivanov · The Revolt Against Mother Earth 622 Maurice Beebe · The Three Motives of Raskolnikov: A Reinterpretation of Crime and Punishment 630 Ruth Mortimer · Dostoevski and the Dream 641 Ralph E. Matlaw · Recurrent Imagery in Crime and Punishment 655 A. Bem · [The Problem of Guilt in Dostoevsky's Fiction] 658 Alberto Moravia · The Marx-Dostoevsky Duel 661 V. Pereverzev · [A Marxist Summing-Up of Dostoevsky] 664 U.S.S.R. Ministry of Culture · [The 1953 Outline for the Study of Dostoevsky in Soviet Universities] 666 U.S.S.R. Ministry of Culture · [The 1955 Outline for the Study of Dostoevsky in Soviet Universities] 667 Leonid P. Grossman · [The Construction of the Novel] 669 Leonid P. Grossman · [Dostoevsky's Descriptions: The Characters and the City] 672 F. I. Evnin · [Plot Structure and Raskolnikov's Oscillations] 675 A Chronology of Dostoevsky's Life 684 Selected Bibliography 687