The Brothers Karamazov

CORRECTION to the census entry: the first book edition was published in St. Petersburg (Panteleev Brothers press), not Moscow, with the title page dated 1881 and issue in December 1880; it follows the Russkiy Vestnik serialisation of 1879–80, which is where the text first appeared. For English, both editions of 1912 are collected and both should be named: William Heinemann, London is the first edition in English, and The Macmillan Company, New York is the first American — but the Macmillan is not a separate printing, being the Heinemann sheets with a cancelled title page, and the London issue is by far the less often seen of the two. Later English versions — revisions of Garnett, and the Pevear and Volokhonsky and other retranslations — are "first thus" only.