I have added a new post to the Copy Book, A Great Writer.
In August 1880, Russian novelist Fyodor Dostoevsky (1821-1881) was finishing his novel The Brothers Karamázov at his dacha (summer retreat) in the spa town of Staraya Russa, a few miles from Veliky Novogorod in northwest Russia. He found the time to respond to a letter from Nikolai Osmidov, who had asked him what reading he would recommend for Osmidov’s twelve-year-old-daughter, and the first novelist that Dostoevsky named was none other that Scotland’s own Sir Walter Scott.