The Dostoevsky archive : firsthand accounts of the novelist from contemporaries' memoirs and rare periodicals, most translated into English for the first time, with a detailed lifetime chronology and annotated bibliography
Stocked partly with material from archives that opened after the fall of the Soviet Union, documents the life of Russian novelist Dostoevsky (1821-81), a major literary figure throughout the world. The texts are presented in chronological sections from his childhood through the various stages of his literary and political career to his last months. Supporting material includes substantial introductions to the volume as a whole and to each section, a chronology, biographical sketches of people mentioned, and a selected bibliography annotated in considerable detail. c. Book News Inc
Biography
xiii, 370 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm
9780786402649, 0786402644
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