Bednye liudi in English?

Russell Valentino russell-valentino at UIOWA.EDU
Thu Nov 6 23:59:28 UTC 2003


Nicole,

I used the McDuff translation (in Penguin Classics *Poor Folk and Other 
Stories*) just last year and found it good.

Amazon lists two e-versions as well, though I don't know whose translations 
they are.

Russell

At 04:25 PM 11/6/2003 -0600, you wrote:
>Dear SEELANGStsy:
>
>I¹m teaching a Dostoevsky course in the spring and am strongly inclined to
>teach Poor Folk. Tracking down enough copies of an English-language version
>in sufficient quantities is proving somewhat difficult, however. The only
>widely available one I can find is a new translation by Hugh Aplin (Poor
>People, Hesperus Press, 2003). It has a pretty cover (to judge from the
>picture on Barnesandnoble.com), but I know nothing more about it. Has anyone
>out there taken a look at it?
>
>Curiously,
>
>Nicole
>
>
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>Dr. Nicole Monnier                              email: monniern at missouri.edu
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