Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky

Novels adapted by MW are not restricted to those by women. Works by male writers she has revised for broadcasting include Kipps by H. G. Wells , aired on Radio 4 in 1984 and runner-up...

Reviews were mixed (one pronounced occasionally ponderous as well as poignant and personal).Josephine Hendin in the Saturday Review found the novel politically cliché'd and its resolution improbable. AW responded with an indignant...

Betty Coles's first reading was Beatrix Potter , then Lewis CarrollAlice in Wonderland and E. Nesbit , whose Bastable stories she read over and over again. Though her parents were not bookish people she progressed at...

In 1963 Eldon Branda produced a dramatised version which Stead liked, but which was not produced.Stanley Burnshaw fought to persuade Holt, Rinehart and Winston to re-issue the work, but again no British publisher...

After its appearance in England this book was reviewed for the Times Literary Supplement by Anthony Samuel Curtis , together with a recent reprint of For Love Alone. Curtis judged that two novels shared...

CSJ 's adaptationFyodor Mikhailovich DostoevskyThe Brothers Karamazov was first performed by the Stage Society at the Aldwych Theatre , London.

It was based on J. Copeau and J. Croué 's French version, Les Frères Karamazov (1911), of Dostoevsky 's novel.

In her short autobiographical article Leaving School—XI, AQ mentions having been writing stories since the age of seven to entertain myself. Her urge to write was fostered by her discovery of Dostoyevsky 's...

Books borrowed from Hackney Public Library were also important to HP 's education: the moderns (Woolf , Lawrence , Hemingway , Eliot ), and also Dostoyevsky .

In shaping her thought, her father 's influence was primary. Later influences on her thinking and therefore also in her novels were provided by Dostoevsky in particular, by existentialist philosophy as embodied in Sartre ...

IM 's novels present human beings in an existentialist fashion as living their self-absorbed lives in a world which is random and even absurd. Nevertheless they are in pursuit of some absolute value: often love...

This includes much fascinating detail about the circumstances and forms of her earliest writing, and paints a vivid picture of her underlying attitudes: the longing for an exotic world quite unlike the familiar terrain of...

The first of these still-born novels was very long and Dostoevsky an. The second combined various themes from her family experience: the painter-protagonist escapes a stifling, anti-artistic, bourgeois English background only to die of consumption...

This continues Kristeva's psychological investigation of states of the human mind, and of their representation in literature and art. In this case her analysis brings in philosophical and religious systems as well. She connects depression...

The narrative voice (a Scottish one, apparently as a kind of joke) is complex and shifting, with irony fed by unstable reference to the central couple (now Muriel and Henry, now Mother and Father, and...