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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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Book category Books in English Biography & True Stories Biography: general Biography: literary

• Full title: Dostoevsky
• Author: Joseph Frank
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 984
• EAN: 9780691155999
• ISBN: 0691155992
• ID: 01236237
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Weight: 1414 g
• Dimensions: 243 × 166 × 54 mm
• Date of publishing: 26. August 2012

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