A Bad Business - Essential Stories

About the author

Nicolas Pasternak Slater, a nephew of Boris Pasternak, is a retired haematologist. Published translations include Dostoevsky's Crime and Punishment, Pasternak's Doctor Zhivago, Tolstoy's short stories, and, for Pushkin Press, stories by Ivan Turgenev and Anton Chekhov.FYODOR DOSTOYEVSKY was born in Moscow in 1821. A strong critic of the tsarist regime, he spent four years in a Siberian prison camp followed by six years of military service in exile. A renowned writer and journalist, is masterpieces of psychological and existential fiction include Crime and Punishment, The Idiot, The Brothers Karamazov and Notes from Underground.MAYA SLATER has published translations of Molière and other French writers, and co-translations with her husband Nicolas Pasternak Slater. She is a Senior Research Fellow of Queen Mary University of London.

Product details

• Authors: Fyodor Dostoyevsky
• Assisted by: Slater Maya (Translation), Nicolas Slater Pasternak (Translation)
• Publisher: Pushkin Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Release: 18.06.2026
• EAN: 9781805332060
• ISBN: 978-1-80533-206-0
• Subjects: FICTION / Short Stories (single author), FICTION / Classics, Classic fiction (pre c 1945), Short Stories, Classic fiction: literary and general