Before they were titans [electronic resource] : essays on the early works of Dostoevsky and Tolstoy / edited with an introduction by Elizabeth Cheresh Allen.

Dostoevsky and Tolstoy are the titans of Russian literature. As mature artists, they led very different lives and wrote vastly different works, but their early lives and writings display provocative kinships, while also indicating the divergent paths the two authors would take en route to literary g...

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