{"product_id":"a-writers-diary-fyodor-dostoevsky-9780810125216","title":"A Writer's Diary","description":"The essential entries from Dostoevsky's complete \u003ci\u003eDiary\u003c\/i\u003e, called his boldest experiment in literary form, are now available in this abridged edition; it is a uniquely encyclopedic forum of fictional and nonfictional genres. \u003ci\u003eA Writer's Diary\u003c\/i\u003e began as a column in a literary journal, but by 1876 Dostoevsky was able to bring it out as a complete monthly publication with himself as an editor, publisher, and sole contributor, suspending work on \u003ci\u003eThe Brothers Karamazov\u003c\/i\u003e to do so. The \u003ci\u003eDiary\u003c\/i\u003e's radical format was matched by the extreme range of its contents. In a single frame it incorporated an astonishing variety of material: short stories; humorous sketches; reports on sensational crimes; historical predictions; portraits of famous people; autobiographical pieces; and plans for stories, some of which were never written while others appeared later in the \u003ci\u003eDiary\u003c\/i\u003e itself. A range of authorial and narrative voices and stances and an elaborate scheme of allusions and cross-references preserve and present Dostoevsky's conception of his work as a literary whole. Selected from the two-volume set, this abridged edition of \u003ci\u003eA Writer's Diary\u003c\/i\u003e appears in a single paperback volume, along with a new condensed introduction by editor Gary Saul Morson.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Fyodor Dostoevsky\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0810125218\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780810125216\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Northwestern University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 03\/01\/2009\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 648\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.66lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.56h x 5.72w x 1.52d","brand":"Fyodor Dostoevsky","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44049900404991,"sku":"9780810125216","price":39.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_8fe963f2-e9d8-492d-a454-690ba13a67e6.jpg?v=1685004053","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/a-writers-diary-fyodor-dostoevsky-9780810125216","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}