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Dostoyevsky, The Brothers Karamazov, 1912, first edition in English

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DOSTOEVSKY, FYODOR MIKHAILOVICH

The Brothers Karamazov. A Novel in Four Parts and an Epilogue...from The Russian by Constance Garnett. William Heinemann, 1912


8vo, FIRST EDITION IN ENGLISH, presumably an early issue with the author's full name on spine, half-title with "Volume 1" and adverts to verso, original red cloth stamped with roundel in blind, and spine stamped in dark green, spotting to endpapers, slight soiling to boards, spine sunned, bowed and bumped


Constance Garnett was one of the first translators of Tolstoy, Dostoyevsky and Chekov. Educated at Newnham College, Cambridge, she translated over 71 volumes of Russian literary works and is often credited with introducing these novels to the wider English-speaking public.



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