A_2007_reader

IMO please avoid this fine translator: Constance Garnett, July 14 2004

Listen carefully: when you read a work translated, the translator makes a big difference. Constance Garnett is a fine translator, but she tends to literally translate (not literal as in a machine translation, but rather, so no word is lost). This tends to make the book wordy and grates on many people's nerves (not just mine--read the other reviews here)

CAVEAT EMPTOR. You have been warned. A better, more modern translator might be: Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky.

And as they say in Russian: "If you don't believe it, take it as a fairy tale" (translated).