Dostoevsky
Subtitle: a writer in his time
By: Joseph Frank.
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Princeton
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 959
ISBN-13: 9780691128191
Subjects: Dostoyevsky, Fyodor, -- 1821-1881; Novelists, Russian -- 19th century -- Biography; Russia -- Intellectual life -- 1801-1917
Genres: Biography
Notes: Abridged ed. of author's work in 5 v.: Dostoevsky. c1976-2002.

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Prelude; title: The family; title: The religious and cultural background; title: The academy of engineers; title: The two romanticisms; title: The Gogol period; title: Poor folk; title: Belinsky and Dostoevsky I; title: Belinsky and Dostoevsky II; title: The Beketov and Petrashevsky circles; title: Dostoevsky and Speshnev; title: The Peter-and-Paul Fortress; title: Katorga; title: Monsters in their misery; title: Private Dostoevsky; title: A Russian heart; title: The Siberian novellas; title: Homecoming; title: Into the fray; title: An aesthetics of transcendence; title: The insulted and injured; title: The era of proclamations; title: Portrait of a nihilist; title: Time : the final months; title: Winter notes on summer impressions; title: An emancipated woman, a tormented lover; title: The prison of utopia; title: Notes from underground; title: The end of epoch; title: Khlestakov in Wiesbaden; title: From novella to novel; title: Crime and punishment; title: A little diamond; title: The gambler; title: Escape and exile; title: In search of a novel; title: An inconsolable father; title: The idiot; title: The pamphlet and the poem; title: Fathers, sons, and Stavrogin; title: Exile's return; title: History and myth in The devils; title: The book of the impostors; title: The citizen; title: Narodnichestvo : Russian populism; title: A raw youth; title: A public figure; title: The diary of a writer, 1876-1877; title: A new novel; title: The great debate; title: Rebellion and the Grand Inquisitor; title: Terror and martial law; title: The Pushkin festival; title: Controversies and conclusions; title: The Brothers Karamazov : books 1-4; title: The Brothers Karamazov : books 5-6; title: The Brothers Karamazov : books 7-12; title: Death and transfiguration.