This book brings together Virginia Woolf's essays and book reviews on Russian literature; her unpublished reading notes on Tolstoy, Dostoevsky, Chekhov, and Turgenev; and new and insightful scholarly commentary concerning her response to each of the major Russian writers.

Autorentext
ROBERTA RUBENSTEIN is Professor of Literature at American University, USA and author of Home Matters: Longing and Belonging, Nostalgia and Mourning in Women's Fiction.

Inhalt
Introduction: Russophilia PART I: DOSTOEVSKY - 'THE DIM AND POPULOUS UNDERWORLD' The Possessed - holograph reading notes (1928) On The Possessed , from 'The Psychologists,' in 'Phases of Fiction' - Holograph Draft (1928) PART II: CHEKHOV - 'AN ASTONISHING SENSE OF FREEDOM' 'Tchekhov on Pope' - Holograph Draft (1925) 'Tchekhov on Pope' - Typescript 'The Rape of the Lock' - Holograph Reading Notes (1925) PART III: TOLSTOY - 'GENIUS IN THE RAW' Anna Karenina I - Holograph Reading Notes (1909-1914?) Anna Karenina II - Holograph Reading Notes War and Peace - Holograph Reading Notes (1928-1929) PART IV: TURGENEV - 'A PASSION FOR ART' Turgenev's Fiction - Holograph Reading Notes (1933) Conclusion - 'everything is the proper stuff of fiction'