DOSTOEVSKY (Fyodor).
Stavrogin's Confession and the Plan of the Life of a Great Sinner with Introductory and Explanatory Notes Translated by S.S. Koteliansky and Virginia Woolf.
An attractively produced edition bringing together some of Dostoevsky’s previously unpublished works in English, including chapters of The Possessed, and a plan for an unrealised novel entitled The Life of a Great Sinner. Virginia Woolf collaborated with Samuel Koteliansky to present a polished translation of this book, which had, the year prior, been published by the Russian government.
The contents form part of an immense discovery of Dostoevsky’s personal papers and notes at the Central Archive Department of the Russian Socialist Federative Soviet Republic in November 1921. Within a case entitled “En cas de ma mort ou une maladie grave” were found numerous writings of Dostoevsky hitherto unknown, with notes on Crime and Punishment, The Idiot, The Brothers Karamazov, and The Possessed. The last of these, included in this present edition, represented three additional chapters that were omitted from its initial publication in Russkiy Vestnik.
Offsetting to endpapers, neat inscription to front-free endpaper, boards and printed paper labels with gentle spotting, wear to extremities, else good.
