Stavrogin's Confession And The Plan Of The Life Of A Great Sinner
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Edition: First English Edition
Condition remarks:
Condition: Good for age. Jacket: No dust jacket - cloth/board in good condition; lightly stained; yellowed boards. Page Condition: Yellowed. Markings: No markings. Binding condition: Binding intact but aged and worn. Stickers/labels: None. 169 pp. 6 pages of ads at rear.
Stavrogin's Confession and The Plan of The Life of a Great Sinner presents two of Dostoevsky's most revelatory and philosophically charged suppressed manuscripts, translated into English by S. S. Koteliansky and Virginia Woolf. Stavrogin's Confession is the notorious censored chapter from The Devils (also known as The Possessed), in which the charismatic and morally corrupt Nikolai Stavrogin confesses to a shattering act of depravity before a saintly monk. Alongside it, The Plan of The Life of a Great Sinner chronicles Dostoevsky's ambitious outline for an unwritten epic novel — a grand spiritual reckoning tracing one man's journey from sin to redemption — offering an extraordinary window into the author's creative and theological imagination. Together, these documents illuminate the dark psychological and spiritual terrain that defined Dostoevsky's mature vision, making this volume an indispensable companion for any serious reader of nineteenth-century Russian literature.
Author: F. M. Dostoevsky; translated by S.S. Koteliansky and Virginia Woolf
Format: Hardback
Published: 1922, The Hogarth Press
Genre: Classic fiction
Edition: First English Edition
Condition remarks:
Condition: Good for age. Jacket: No dust jacket - cloth/board in good condition; lightly stained; yellowed boards. Page Condition: Yellowed. Markings: No markings. Binding condition: Binding intact but aged and worn. Stickers/labels: None. 169 pp. 6 pages of ads at rear.
Stavrogin's Confession and The Plan of The Life of a Great Sinner presents two of Dostoevsky's most revelatory and philosophically charged suppressed manuscripts, translated into English by S. S. Koteliansky and Virginia Woolf. Stavrogin's Confession is the notorious censored chapter from The Devils (also known as The Possessed), in which the charismatic and morally corrupt Nikolai Stavrogin confesses to a shattering act of depravity before a saintly monk. Alongside it, The Plan of The Life of a Great Sinner chronicles Dostoevsky's ambitious outline for an unwritten epic novel — a grand spiritual reckoning tracing one man's journey from sin to redemption — offering an extraordinary window into the author's creative and theological imagination. Together, these documents illuminate the dark psychological and spiritual terrain that defined Dostoevsky's mature vision, making this volume an indispensable companion for any serious reader of nineteenth-century Russian literature.