Dostoevsky: A Writer in His Time

By Joseph Frank

Book Overview

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.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0691155992
• ISBN13: 9780691155999
• Release Date: August 2012
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Length: 984 Pages
• Weight: 3.18 lbs.
• Dimensions: 2.3" x 6.4" x 9.3"