Full name: Dostoevsky: A Writer in His Time

Author: Joseph Frank Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Purchase/reserch links: LibraryThing Amazon Goodreads ISBNs: 9780691155999 0691155992

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. Similar books: Chekhov by Henri Troyat Tolstoy by Henri Troyat Sophia Tolstoy by Alexandra Popoff Pushkin by T. J. Binyon Sonya by Anne Edwards Mad World by Paula Byrne Tolstoy by Rosamund Bartlett Anton Chekhov by Donald Rayfield Some Sort of Epic Grandeur by Matthew Joseph Bruccoli Sidetracks by Richard Holmes Jonathan Swift by Leo Damrosch The life of Oscar Wilde by Hesketh Pearson Pushkin's Button by Serena Vitale Soldier by Karen DeYoung Balzac by Graham Robb