Reading Experience Database
1450-1945

Listing for Author: Fyodor Dostoevsky

 

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Century of ExperienceEvidenceName of Reader / Listener / Reading GroupAuthor of TextTitle of TextForm of Text
 
1900-1945'Even before [Chaim Lewis] discovered the English novelists, he was introduced to Tolstoy, Dostoevsky, Turgenev and Pu...Chaim Lewis Fyodor DostoevskyPrint: Book
1850-1899'The son of a barely literate Derbyshire collier recalled a sister, a worker in a hosiery factory, who was steeped in ...Fyodor Dostoevsky[unknown]Print: Book
1900-1945'Ewan McColl remembered his father, a Communist ironfounder, as someone who was always giving him secondhand books. He...Ewan McColl Fyodor DostoevskyPrint: Book
1900-1945'Once a month when [Jack Jones's] duties took him to Cardiff, he would exchange twelve to twenty books and take them h...Jack Jones Fyodor Dostoevsky[most works]Print: Book
1900-1945'"Reading for me then was haphazard, unguided, practically uncritical", recalled boilermaker's daughter Marjory Todd. ...Marjory Todd Fyodor DostoevskyCrime and PunishmentPrint: Book
1900-1945'W.J. Brown was introduced to literature by "Robinson Crusoe", "She", "The Last of the Mohicans", and "Around the Worl...William John Brown Fyodor DostoevskyThe IdiotPrint: Book
1900-1945'W.J. Brown was introduced to literature by "Robinson Crusoe", "She", "The Last of the Mohicans", and "Around the Worl...William John Brown Fyodor DostoevskyThe Brothers KaramazovPrint: Book
1900-1945'19th September 1928 (Wednesday) I have got nearly all my books home from the office now. It is a lengthy job, bri...Gerald Moore Fyodor DostoevskyCrime and PunishmentPrint: Book
1900-1945Virginia Woolf, on her honeymoon, to Lytton Strachey, 1 September 1912: 'You can't think with what a fury we fall o...Virginia Woolf Fyodor DostoevskyCrime and PunishmentPrint: Book
1900-1945Virginia Woolf to Lytton Strachey, 22 October 1915: 'I should think I had read 600 books since we met. Please tell ...Virginia Woolf Fyodor DostoevskyThe Insulted and InjuredPrint: Book
1900-1945Virginia Woolf to Vita Sackville-West, 30 August 1928: 'I am happy because it is the loveliest August [...] I read ...Virginia Woolf Fyodor DostoevskyPrint: Book
1900-1945Tuesday 19 January 1915: 'I'm reading The Idiot. I cant bear the style of it very often; at the same time, he seem...Virginia Woolf Fyodor DostoevskyThe IdiotPrint: Book
1900-1945'Reading the Father Zossima chapter ['The Brothers Karamazov'] I felt the confessor-saint fulfilled exactly the same f...Antonia White Fyodor DostoevskyBrothers Karamazov, ThePrint: Book
1900-1945Leonard Woolf to Lytton Strachey, 2 August 1911: 'Les Freres Karamazov is one of the greatest of novels [...] Have ...Leonard Woolf Fyodor DostoevskyThe Brothers KaramazovPrint: Book
1900-1945Leonard Woolf to Lytton Strachey, 2 August 1911: 'Les Freres Karamazov is one of the greatest of novels [...] Have ...Leonard Woolf Fyodor DostoevskyLes Freres KaramazovPrint: Book
1900-1945E. M. Forster to Ottoline Morrell, 2 April 1910: 'I am reading Les Freres Karamazov, but am so far a little disappo...Edward Morgan Forster Fyodor DostoevskyThe Brothers KaramazovPrint: Book
1850-1899'In the late 1880s Gissing immersed himself in contemporary European fiction, as he had during previous periods of his...George Gissing Fyodor Dostoevsky[unknown]Print: Book
1850-1899'Now [after 1890] he [Gissing] read books that seemed to have had a direct impact on his development, turning him away...George Gissing Fyodor Dostoevsky[unknown]Print: Book
1850-1899'Gissing, probably more than any of his contemporaries, knew well the main trends of European literature at that time,...George Gissing Fyodor Dostoevsky[unknown]Print: Book
1900-1945'Dostoieffsky [sic] occupied our attention for the remained [sic] of the evening. We were much indebted to R.H. Robson...Charles Stansfield Fyodor DostoevskyPrint: Book
1900-1945'Dostoieffsky [sic] occupied our attention for the remained [sic] of the evening. We were much indebted to R.H. Robson...Ernest E. Unwin Fyodor DostoevskyPrint: Book
1900-1945'Dostoieffsky [sic] occupied our attention for the remained [sic] of the evening. We were much indebted to R.H. Robson...Katherine Evans Fyodor DostoevskyPrint: Book
1900-1945'Dostoieffsky [sic] occupied our attention for the remained [sic] of the evening. We were much indebted to R.H. Robson...Reginald Robson Fyodor DostoevskyPrint: Book
1900-1945'I do hope you are not too disgusted with me for not thanking you for the "[The Brothers] Karamazov" before. It was ve...Joseph Conrad Fyodor Dostoevsky The Brothers KaramazovPrint: Book

 

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