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Dostoevsky: a writer in his time

By: Frank, Joseph.
Contributor(s): Petrusewicz, Mary [ed.].
Series: UPCC book collections on Project MUSE.Publisher: New Jersey : Princeton University Press, 2010Description: xxiii, 959 p. ; ill., 24 cm.ISBN: 9780691155999.Subject(s): Biographies | Literary Criticism Russian | Former Soviet Union | Electronic books | Literary figures | RussiaDDC classification: 891.733 Summary: 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.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

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.

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