Product Description

This volume covers the six most remarkably productive years in the great novelist's entire career. It was in this short span of time that Dostoevsky produced three of his greatest novels - Crime and Punishment, The Idiot and The Devils. These masterpieces were written in the midst of harrowing practical and economic circumstances, as Dostoevsky moved from place to place, frequently giving in to his passion for roulette. Having fled from Russia to escape creditors and dependents, he could not return for fear of being thrown in debtor's prison. He and his young bride, with whom he had two children, lived obscurely in Switzerland, Germany and Italy.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #3137136 in Books
• Published on: 2008-12-31
• Original language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• 528 pages

Review
"- '...as much a work of literary criticism as of biographical research.' Sunday Telegraph - '...has no rivals in any language.' Donald Fanger, Harvard University

About the Author
Joseph Frank is Professor of Comparative Literature Emeritus at Princeton University and Professor of Comparative Literature and Slavic Languages and Literature Emeritus at Stanford University. Previous volumes of Dostoevsky have received the National Book Critics Circle Award for Biography, two Christian Gauss Awards, two James Russell Lowell Awards, a Los Angeles Book prize and other honours. In addition to the previous volumes of Dostoevsky, Frank is author of Through the Russian Prism: Essays on Literature and Culture.