![]() 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. 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. ![]() ![]() 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. The five volumes of his Dostoevsky biography won a National Book Critics Circle Award, a Los Angeles Times Book Prize, two James Russell Lowell Prizes, and two Christian Gauss Awards, and have been translated into numerous languages. 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. Joseph Frank was professor emeritus of Slavic and comparative literature at Stanford and Princeton. As his biographer Joseph Frank writes, Dostoevsky, a political reactionary and devout Christian, was horrified by Russia’s burgeoning industrialization and commercialization. ![]() A magnificent one-volume abridgement of one of the greatest literary biographies of our time ![]()
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