DOSTOYEVSKY, Feodor.
Crime and Punishment.
New York: The Macmillan Co , 1914.
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“The darker the night, the brighter the stars,
The deeper the grief, the closer is God!”: First Edition of Dostoyevsky's Classic Novel Crime and Punishment
First American edition of the Garnet translation of the author's masterpiece. Octavo, original publisher's cloth, top edge gilt, three titles by the author with "Other volumes to follow" opposite the title page, Ballantyne imprint at bottom of last page of text. In very good condition with light rubbing to the extremities. Translated from the Russian by Constance Garnett. Housed in a half morocco slipcase and chamise.
The two years before he wrote Crime and Punishment had been bad ones for Dostoyevsky. His wife and brother had died; the magazine he and his brother had started, Epoch, collapsed under its load of debt; and he was threatened with debtor's prison. With an advance that he managed to wangle for an unwritten novel, he fled to Wiesbaden, hoping to win enough at the roulette table to get himself out of debt. Instead, he lost all his money; he had to pawn his clothes and beg friends for loans to pay his hotel bill and get back to Russia. One of his begging letters went to a magazine editor, asking for an advance on yet another unwritten novel — which he described as Crime and Punishment. One of the supreme masterpieces of world literature, Crime and Punishment catapulted Dostoyevsky to the forefront of Russian writers and into the ranks of the world's greatest novelists.
Crime and Punishment.
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