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Stavrogin's Confession and the Plan of the Life of a Great Sinner
Fyodor Dostoevsky · translated by S. S. Koteliansky and Virginia Woolf
Chapters Dostoevsky wrote for The Possessed that were left out of the novel, in which Stavrogin brings a written confession to a bishop, with his notes for an unwritten novel.
Stavrogin's Confession contains the chapters omitted from The Possessed when it was first published, and The Plan of the Life of a Great Sinner, Dostoevsky's outline for a novel he did not write.
This edition is the English translation by S. S. Koteliansky and Virginia Woolf.
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On November 12, 1921, in the presence of A. V. Lunacharsky, Commissar of Education, and M. N. Pokrovsky, Assistant Commissar of Education, in the Central Archive Department of the Russian Socialist Federative Soviet Republic there was opened a white tin case numbered 5038 from the State Archives containing F. M. Dostoevsky’s papers.
Contents
- 01New Mss. Of F. M. Dostoevsky
- 02Stavrogin’s Confession
- 03I
- 04II
- 05Plan of the Novel the Life of a Great Sinner
- 06Stavrogin’s Meeting with Tikhon
- 07Introduction to the Unpublished Chapter of the Possessed
- 08The Unfulfilled Idea Introductory Note to the Life of a Great Sinner
About this edition
- Author
- Fyodor Dostoevsky
- Translator
- S. S. Koteliansky and Virginia Woolf
- Era
- Modern (c. 1800–1945)
- Reading level
- Advanced: for close, demanding reading
- Formats
- EPUB, PDF
- Length
- 84 pages
- This edition
- Modern Philosophers