This Norton Critical Edition includes:

* Michael Katz's "superb" (Times Literary Supplement) new translation of the world's most-read Russian novel accompanied by his preface and detailed explanatory footnotes.

* Names of principal characters, a note on characters' names, and a map of St. Petersburg.

* Key excerpts from Dostoevsky's notebooks, letters, and his early draft of Part II, Chapter 2.

* Twenty-six scholarly essays on the novel from Russian, European, and American sources.

* A chronology and a selected bibliography.



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