The original Norton Critical Edition of Crime and Punishment (1964) and the Second Edition of 1975 were well received by readers and students. The editor and the translators are most grateful to the users of these editions over the past two decades. Since the last revision, however, important new critical and scholarly works have been published about Dostoevsky. Stimulating reinterpretations have made his works more relevant to the readers of the present time, and fresh scholarly discoveries have been made. The time has come to incorporate some of the work done in recent years in another, new edition.

Jessie Coulson's translation, which has never been bettered, once again provides the text for this justly popular Norton Critical Edition, here in its long-awaited Third Edition. Helpful new footnotes have been added,based on discoveries by leading Soviet Dostoevsky scholar Sergei Belov.

Noteworthy among the new "Essays in Criticism" are a little-known but important passage by Leo Tolstoy on Raskolnikov; an essay by Belov; observations by Russian literary theoretician and scholar Mikhail Bakhtin; and an essay by Nobel prizewinner Czeslaw Milosz.

Preface to the Third Edition

The Text of Crime and Punishment

 The Names of the Principal Characters

Backgrounds and Sources

 Map: The St. Petersburg of Crime and Punishment

 From Dostoevsky's Notebooks

 From Dostoevsky's Letters

To A. A. Kraevsky (June 8, 1865)

Draft, to M. N. Katkov (Sept., 1865)

To A. E. Vrangel (Feb. 18, 1866)

To M. N. Katkov (April 25, 1866)

To A. V. Korvin-Krukovskaya (June 17, 1866)

 A Passage from an Early Draft

Essays in Criticism

 N. Strakhov · [The Nihilists and Raskolnikov's New Ideal

 Leo Tolstoy · [How Minute Changes of Consciousness

  Caused Raskolnikov to Commit Murder]

 Sergei V. Belov · The History of the Writing of the Novel

 Georgy Chulkov · [Dostoevsky's Technique of Writing]

 K. Mochulsky · [The Five Acts of Crime and Punishment]

 Jose Ortega y Gasset · [Why Dostoevsky Lives in the

  Twentieth Century]

 Ernest J. Simmons · The Art of Crime and Punishment

 George Gibian · Traditional Symbolism in Crime

  and Punishment

 Philip Rahv · Dostoevsky in Crime and Punishment

 Joseph Frank. The World of Raskolnikov

 Nicholas Berdyaev · [Dostoevsky, the Nature of Man,

  and Evil]

 Vyacheslav Ivanov · The Revolt Against Mother Earth

 Maurice Beebe · The Three Motives of Raskolnikov:

  A Reinterpretation of Crime and Punishment

 Karen Homey [Raskolnikov's Self-Destructive Should]

 Ralph E. Matlaw · Recurrent Imagery in Crime

  and Punishment

 A. Bem· [The Problem of Guilt in Dostoevsky's Fiction]

 Simon Karlinsky · Dostoevsky as Rorschach Test

 Alberto Moravia · The Marx-Dostoevsky Duel

 V. Pereverzev · [A Marxist Summing-Up of Dostoevsky]

 U.S.S.R. Ministry of Culture [The 1953 Outline for

  the Study of Dostoevsky in Soviet Universities]

 U.S.S.R. Ministry of Culture [The 1955 Outline for

  the Study of Dostoevsky in Soviet Universities]

 U.S.S.R. Ministry of Culture · [The 1984 Outline for the

  Study of Dostoevsky in Soviet Universities]

 Leonid P. Grossman · [The Construction of the Novel]

 Leonid P. Grossman · [Dostoevsky's Descriptions: The

  Characters and the City]

 F. I. Evnin · [Plot Structure and Raskolnikov's

  Oscillations]

 Mikhail Bakhtin · From Problems of Dostoevsky's Poetics

 Michael Holquist · Puzzle and Mystery, the Narrative

  Poles of Knowing: Crime and Punishment

 Czeslaw Milosz · Dostoevsky and Western Intellectuals

 Richard Weisberg · The Brilliant Reactor: The Inquisitor

  in Crime and Punishment

 Michael T. Kaufman · Polish Director Finds Haunting

  Relevance in Dostoevsky

A Chronology of Dostoevsky's Life

Selected Bibliography