Letters of Fyodor Michailovitch Dostoevsky to His Family and Friends cover

Letters of Fyodor Michailovitch Dostoevsky to His Family and Friends

by Ethel Colburn Mayne

Overview: In addition to the 77 letters of Dostoevksy, this book includes contemporary judgments in letters from Turgenev to Slutchevsky, Dostoevsky, Polonsky, Mme. Milyutin, and Saltykov, as well as letters from Pobyedonoszev to Aksakov, and Asksakov to Pobyedonoszev, and Tolstoy to Strachov. There are also recollections of Dostoevsky by D. V. Grigorovitch, A. P. Milyukov, P. K. Martyanov, Baron Alexander Vrangel, and Sophie Kovalevsky.

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  1. Which character stayed with you after you turned the last page, and why?
  2. Was there a moment where you disagreed with a character’s choice? What would you have done?
  3. What theme did this book keep circling back to — and did it earn its ending?
  4. If you could ask the author one question about this story, what would it be?
  5. Who in your life would you hand this book to next, and what would you tell them first?