Dostoevskii and BritainW. J. Leatherbarrow This essential reference source for Dostoevskii scholars charts the great novelist's relationship to, and reception in, Britain. Reprinting a number of articles for the first time in English, as well as essays by noted British scholars, this book brings together a wealth of material on Dostoevskii's visit to Britain, the extent to which he drew inspiration from British writers and thinkers, and the impact he made on the culture. A detailed bibliography designed to assist further research is appended. |
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... reader knows the personages strange , grotesque , terrible personages they are more intimately than if he had been ... readers ; but it will exercise a weird fascination upon those minds to which its author's other writings appeal with ...
... reader knows the personages strange , grotesque , terrible personages they are more intimately than if he had been ... readers ; but it will exercise a weird fascination upon those minds to which its author's other writings appeal with ...
Page 156
... reader ; he later transferred them to his fiction . In any novel by Dostoevskii the careful reader can go back and outline the number of months , days and hours that have passed , but these demarcations blur under the competing ...
... reader ; he later transferred them to his fiction . In any novel by Dostoevskii the careful reader can go back and outline the number of months , days and hours that have passed , but these demarcations blur under the competing ...
Page 226
... reader , and for English and American writers in particular , it was the only Dostoevskii they knew . It shaped for the entire twentieth century Dostoevskii's English and American ' existence ' , and it became a factor in drawing ...
... reader , and for English and American writers in particular , it was the only Dostoevskii they knew . It shaped for the entire twentieth century Dostoevskii's English and American ' existence ' , and it became a factor in drawing ...
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