Cynical Reader

Give me a happily-ever-after fairy-tale and I'll fight you every step of the way, but give me a tragic, grief-ridden story and I'll let it consume me.

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The Collected Poems

Sylvia Plath, Ted Hughes

Can anyone tell me which translation of Crime and Punishment is better? I've heard Garnett, but I've also heard Pevear and Volokhonsky's was "the only translation of this that captures the original". Help please :)

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