num_pages: 984
description: Joseph 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 2500-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.http://press.princeton.edu/titles/897...
language: English
title: Dostoevsky: A Writer in His Time
publisher: Princeton University Press