Anton Chekhov was the author of hundreds of short stories and several plays and is regarded by many as both the greatest Russian storyteller and the father of modern drama.
Praise for previous translations by Richard Pevear and Larissa
Volokhonsky, winners of the PEN/Book-of-the-Month Club Prize:
The Brothers Karamazov
“One finally gets the musical whole of Dostoevsky’s original.” –New
York Times Book Review
“It may well be that Dostoevsky’s [world], with all its resourceful
energies of life and language, is only now–and through the medium
of [this] new translation–beginning to come home to the
English-speaking reader.” –New York Review of Books
Crime and Punishment
“The best [translation] currently available…An especially faithful
re-creation…with a coiled-spring kinetic energy…Don’t miss it.”
–Washington Post Book World
“This fresh, new translation…provides a more exact, idiomatic, and
contemporary rendition of the novel that brings Fyodor Dostoevsky’s
tale achingly alive…It succeeds beautifully.” –San Francisco
Chronicle
“Reaches as close to Dostoevsky’s Russian as is possible in
English…The original’s force and frightening immediacy is
captured…The Pevear and Volokhonsky translation will become the
standard version.” –Chicago Tribune
Demons
“The merit in this edition of Demons resides in the technical
virtuosity of the translators…They capture the feverishly intense,
personal explosions of activity and emotion that manifest
themselves in Russian life.” –New York Times Book Review
“[Pevear and Volokhonsky] have managed to capture and differentiate
the characters’ many voices…They come into their own when faced
with Dostoevsky’s wonderfully quirky use of varied speech
patterns…A capital job of restoration.” –Los Angeles Times
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