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First ENGLISH TRANSLATION: Dostoevsky's CRIME AND PUNISHMENT - 20th Jan 2024

New addition to our website: the very first English translation of CRIME AND PUNISHMENT, by Vizetelly & Co. 1886 — price comensurate with condition and rarity!

Last recorded sale in March 2017 for NZ$25,900: here's a Guardian article about finding it in a box for £14!
www.theguardian.com/books/2017/apr/06/crime-and-punishment-dostoevsky-auction

The Vizetelly's are quite interesting in and of themselves: Vizetelly elder also oversaw the first English translation of Flaubert's Madame Bovary, and was fined for the obscenity of publishing Zola in English in 1888 and then again in 1889 — for which he was imprisioned for 3 months and bankrupt by 1890!

http://www.victorianresearch.org/atcl/show_genre.php?gid=71

Clearly a good eye for literature — just like yourself, if you find yourself browsing our Hard to Find Books' website :P

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