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Dostoevsky: A Writer in His Time

By Joseph Frank, Mary Petrusewicz
984 pages

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Contributors:: Joseph Frank
Mary Petrusewicz
Publisher:: Princeton University Press
Place of publication:: Princeton, NJ
Publication year:: 2010
Subjects:: Dostoyevsky, Fyodor, 1821-1881
Novelists, Russian--19th Century--Biography
Russia--Intellectual Life--1801-1917

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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.

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