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Tom Stoppard's interest in Russia began when he was a student in London in the early sixties, the concern over the fate of Russian dissidents in 1973 grew Stoppard's initial curiosity about the country and moved him beyond an attempt to learn its language. Stoppard devotes his trilogy, 'The Coast of Utopia', made up of voyage, shipwreck, and salvage, to thirty-five years of nineteenth century Russian history.

The Letters of Wilkie Collins: Volume One, 1838-1865, edited by William Baker and William M. Clarke; pp. xli + 267. London: Macmillan, 1999, £52.50, $55.00. The Letters of Wilkie Collins: [...]

'A Bibliography of James Joyce, 1882-1941,' compiled by John J. Slocum and Herbert Cahoon after 15 years of research, does not find a mention in any compilation based on Joycean literature. There have been attempts at examining and updating the bibliographic data that has a few flaws and bogus entries due to the inaccessibility of the enumerators to the private collections of Joyce's works. The job of improving and revising the text is cumbersome and hence for the purpose of convenience the text can be split into two parts - original manuscripts, and translations and adaptations.