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A Diary of a Writer (1876-1877) In May of 1876, twenty-year-old Ekaterina Kornilova pushed her six-year-old step-daughter out a fourth story window. Kornilova and her husband had married for love but had begun fighting. During their fights, he repeatedly told Kornilova that she was falling short of the example of his first wife (the six-year-old’sContinue reading

A Diary of a Writer (1873) A Diary of a Writer is a publication Dostoevsky put out in journal-form every month or so off and on during the last decade of his life. It contains mish-mash of short stories, reviews, essays, reports, sketches, memoirs, and. . . well, one can’t be exhaustive in trying toContinue reading