Since 1886 there have been 11 translations of "Crime and Punishment" into English:
Frederick James Whishaw (1886)
Constance Garnett
David Magarshack [¹û¶³Ó°Ôº Alumnus of 1924]
Princess Alexandra Kropotkin
Jessie Coulson
Michael Scammell
Sidney Monas
Julius Katzer
David McDuff
Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky
Oliver ReadyÌý
¹û¶³Ó°Ôº SSEES Library has most of the above translations (all have the classmark R.XXIV.7 DOS) and are kept on the second floor of ¹û¶³Ó°Ôº SSEES Library.Ìý
One of the translators, David Magarshack was a ¹û¶³Ó°Ôº alumnus of 1925. His translations were considered "". Cathy McAteer, a research student at the University of Bristol, wrote the following passage:
"David Magarshack was born in Riga, then Russia,Ìýin 1899. He wasÌýeducated at a Russian secondary school, and emigrated to England in 1920 in the hope of pursuingÌý higher education. He attended an evening course in English Language and Literature at ¹û¶³Ó°Ôº and graduated with a 2:1 four years later on 22 October 1924. On graduation, he worked as a journalist in Fleet Street andÌýbecame a British citizen in 1931. He was commissioned to translate Dostoevsky's Crime and Punishment for Penguin in 1949, heralding the start of a fifteen-year relationship with Penguin ClassicsÌýand resulting in seven publicationsÌý in total.ÌýIn addition to his translation work, Magarshack also made his name as a biographer,Ìýpublishing works on the lives of Stanislavsky, Chekhov, Turgenev, Gogol, Dostoevsky, and Pushkin. He died inÌýLondon on Wednesday 26 October 1977".
In the holdings of ¹û¶³Ó°Ôº Special Collections there is a copy of "Crime and Punishment", in translation by Constance Garnett, that was in the possesion of George Orwell (ORWELL L 10 DOS). It comes from the collection of Sir Richard Rees Bt, whose library ¹û¶³Ó°Ôº purchased in the academic year 1960/61, and who was the executor of George Orwell's estate. ¹û¶³Ó°Ôº Special Collections' is available online.
[George Orwell's copy of "Crime and Punishment". Copy held at ¹û¶³Ó°Ôº Special Collections, classmark: ORWELL L 10 DOS]