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Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky was born in Moscow in 1821. His debut, the epistolary novella Poor Folk (1846), made his name. In 1849 he was arrested for involvement with the politically subversive 'Petrashevsky circle' and until 1854 he lived in a convict prison in Omsk, Siberia. From this experience came The House of the Dead (1860-2). In 1860 he began the journal Vremya (Time). Already married, he fell in love with one of his contributors, Appollinaria Suslova, eighteen years his junior, and developed a ruinous passion for roulette. After the death of his first wife, Maria, in 1864, Dostoyevsky completed Notes from Underground and began work towards Crime and Punishment (1866). The major novels of his late period are The Idiot (1868), Demons (1871-2) and The Brothers Karamazov (1879-80). He died in 1881. Oliver Ready is Research Fellow in Russian Society and Culture at St Antony's College, Oxford. He is general editor of the anthology, The Ties of Blood: Russian Literature from the 21st Century (2008), and Consultant Editor for Russia, Central and Eastern Europe at the Times Literary Supplement. As Director of the Russkiy Mir Programme at St Antony's, he runs events and conferences devoted to Russian culture.
A truly great translation ... So much of Dostoevsky's effectiveness as a narrator depends on tiny details that it is of true importance to have a punctilious translator - but also a lively one; and Ready's version is colloquial, compellingly modern ... Crime and Punishment is also extremely funny. Ready brings out this quality well -- A. N. Wilson Spectator Oliver Ready's dynamic translation certainly succeeds in implicating new readers in Dostoevsky's old novel -- Robert Bird Times Literary Supplement Oliver Ready's translation of Crime and Punishment ... is a five-star hit, which will make you see the original with new eyes -- A. N. Wilson Times Literary Supplement BOOKS OF THE YEAR
