![]() ![]() Most of us spend much of our life trying to understand only a handful of people we know and love, in a span of time usually extending just three generations (from our parents to our children). Few biographers could muster the intelligence and imagination needed to capture all this in a single tome. ![]() This is the Dostoevsky we encounter in Joseph Frank's superb Dostoevsky: A Writer in His Time, a one-volume, 984-page condensation of Frank's five-volume biography of the author, written over the course of a long and distinguished career. Just the best." -Robin Feuer Miller, Brandeis University, author of Dostoevsky's Unfinished Journey ![]() This is the best biography of Dostoevsky, the best reading of some of the major novels, the best cultural history of nineteenth-century Russia. "The editing and deep thought that have gone into this magnificent one-volume condensation of Frank's magnum opus are to be greatly admired. " ensures Frank's status as the definitive literary biographer of one of the best fiction writers ever." -David Foster Wallace ![]() Awards for Frank's Dostoevsky Volumes: National Book Critics Circle Award for Biography 1984 - Los Angeles Times Book Prize - 2 James Russell Lowell Prizes - 2 Christian Gauss Awards ![]()
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