The Russian Point of View: Virginia Woolf on Dostoevsky, Tolstoy and Checkov

This essay by Virginia Woolf on Dostoevsky, Tolstoy, and Chechov, was first written in 1925 for A Common Reader.  In this critical essay, Woolf offers her assessments of three of the most famous Russian novelists of the past; Fyodor Dostoevsky, Leo Tolstoy, and Anton Checkov unpicking the mastery and oddities in the detail of their writings. […]