Dostoevsky

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.