TheIdiot

TRANSLATIONS OF DOSTOEVSKY BY PEVEAR AND VOLOKHONSKY The Adolescent (2003) The Idiot (2002) Demons (1994) Notes from Underground (1993) Crime and Punishment (1992) The Brothers Karamazov (1990) FIRST VINTAGE CLASSICS EDITION, JULY 2003 Copyright © 2001 by Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions. Published in the United States by Vintage Books, a division of Random House, Inc., New York. Originally published in hardcover in the United States by Alfred A. Knopf, a division of Random House, Inc., New York, in 2002. Vintage is a registered trademark and Vintage Classics and colophon are trademarks of Random House, Inc. This translation has been made from the Soviet Academy of Sciences edition (Izdatel’stvo “Nauka”), volume 8 (Leningrad, 1973). The Library of Congress has cataloged the Knopf edition as follows: Dostoyevsky, Fyodor, 1821—1881. [Idiot. English] The idiot / Fyodor Dostoevsky; translated from the Russian by Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky; introduction by Richard Pevear. p. cm. eISBN: 978-0-553-90189-4 I. Pevear, Richard, 1......