Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky

Reviews were mixed (one pronounced occasionally ponderous as well as poignant and personal).Josephine Hendin in the Saturday Review found the novel politically cliché'd and its resolution improbable. AW responded with an indignant...

In 1963 Eldon Branda produced a dramatised version which Stead liked, but which was not produced.Stanley Burnshaw fought to persuade Holt, Rinehart and Winston to re-issue the work, but again no British publisher...

CSJ 's adaptationFyodor Mikhailovich DostoevskyThe Brothers Karamazov was first performed by the Stage Society at the Aldwych Theatre , London.

During the first half of the twentieth century, CG translated over seventy volumes of Russian literature. At the expense of her eyesight, she translated the major works of Tolstoy , Gorky , and others, and...

The volume reproduces in facsimile no fewer than sixteen drafts of one of EB 's best-known poems, One Art; Quinn's notes include snippets of rejection letters from the New Yorker. The passages...

The first of these still-born novels was very long and Dostoevsky an. The second combined various themes from her family experience: the painter-protagonist escapes a stifling, anti-artistic, bourgeois English background only to die of consumption...

This includes much fascinating detail about the circumstances and forms of her earliest writing, and paints a vivid picture of her underlying attitudes: the longing for an exotic world quite unlike the familiar terrain of...

IM 's novels present human beings in an existentialist fashion as living their self-absorbed lives in a world which is random and even absurd. Nevertheless they are in pursuit of some absolute value: often love...

CG 's translation of Dostoevsky 's The Brothers Karamazov appeared: this version, suggested to her by Arnold Bennett , was the first time that any of Dostoevsky's works had been translated into English.

Novels adapted by MW are not restricted to those by women. Works by male writers she has revised for broadcasting include Kipps by H. G. Wells , aired on Radio 4 in 1984 and runner-up...

It was based on J. Copeau and J. Croué 's French version, Les Frères Karamazov (1911), of Dostoevsky 's novel.

This volume has much less about her intellectual development than its predecessor, but MA mentions that as her work began to dabble on the verge of criminality she discovered the Russian writers, beginning with...

Jameson briefly praises the writings of Mansfield , Conrad , Hardy , and James , along with Willa Cather and Sinclair Lewis . However, she concentrates her study on the way other Georgian authors have...

This continues Kristeva's psychological investigation of states of the human mind, and of their representation in literature and art. In this case her analysis brings in philosophical and religious systems as well. She connects depression...