Dostoevsky A Writer in His Time

A magnificent one-volume abridgement of one of the greatest literary biographies of our timeJoseph Frank's award-winning, five-volume Dostoevsky is widely recognized as the best biography of the writer in any language-and one of the greatest literary biographies of the past half-century. Now Frank's monumental, 2,500-page work has been skillfully abridged and condensed in this single, highly readable volume with a new preface by the author. Carefully preserving the original work's acclaimed narrative style and combination of biography, intellectual history, and literary criticism, Dostoevsky: A Writer in His Time illuminates the writer's works-from his first novel Poor Folk to Crime and Punishment and The Brothers Karamazov-by setting them in their personal, historical, and above all ideological context. More than a biography in the usual sense, this is a cultural history of nineteenth-century Russia, providing both a rich picture of the world in which Dostoevsky lived and a major reinterpretation of his life and work.

ISBN:	9780691155999
Publisher:	Princeton University Press
Imprint:	Princeton University Press
Published date:	26 Aug 2012
DEWEY:	891.733
DEWEY edition:	23
Language:	English
Number of pages:	959
Weight:	1414g
Height:	243mm
Width:	166mm
Spine width:	54mm

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