Dostoevsky: A Writer in His Time (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780691155999)

A magnificent one-volume abridgement of one of the greatest literary biographies of our time

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, 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.

Author: Joseph Frank
ISBN-10: 0691155992
ISBN-13: 9780691155999
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Language: English
Published: 08/26/2012
Pages: 984
Format: Paperback
Weight: 3.11lbs
Size: 9.27h x 6.38w x 2.26d