Stavrogin's Confession and the Plan of the Life of a Great Sinner. With introductory and explanatory notes. Translated by S[amuel]. S[olomonovitch]. Koteliansky and Virginia Woolf.

Richmond [Surrey, England]: The Hogarth Press, 1922 First edition, first binding. . Publisher's blue and white patterned cloth, with light blue spine and paper label title to front board and spine. . Octavo. Pages 1-6 are publisher's ads, normally bound at the end. Mild shelf wear to board extremities. Light staining at board edges. Some chipping and staining to spine label. Pencil annotations to text throughout, indicating edits and re-pagination for subsequent edition. Otherwise, pages bright. Archival tape applied to gutter of half-title. A very good copy, with a unique place in Hogarth publication history The present work contains several fragments of works by Dostoevsky: "Stavrogin's Confession" (a chapter from the novel Besy, known in English as Demons); "The Plan of The Life of a Great Sinner," a sketch for a novel that Dostoevsky never completed; and an unpublished chapter from The Possessed. The gathering and publication of these fragments is explained in the Translator's Note and the additional prefatory note "New MSS. Of Dostoevsky," attributed to the Russian Government, which detail the recent discovery of several of Dostoevsky's notebooks in the Russian State Archives. Additionally, the Hogarth collection includes commentary by V, Friche and N. Brodsky (whose remarks were likewise initially published by the Russian Government), as well V. Komarovich, previously published in the periodical Builoe. From the commentary titled "The Unfulfilled Idea" — "An analysis of The Life which reveals the autobiographic substratum lets us see with greater certainty the personal traits in those other novels of Dostoevsky's into which The Life of. Great Sinner split off."