The term "biography" seems insufficiently capacious to describe the singular achievement of Joseph Frank's five-volume study of the life of the great Russian novelist Fyodor Dostoevsky. One critic, writing upon the publication of the final volume, casually tagged the series as the ultimate work on Dostoevsky "in any language, and quite possibly forever." Frank himself had not originally intended to undertake such a massive work. The endeavor began in the early 1960s as an exploration of Dostoevsky's fiction, but it later ...
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The term "biography" seems insufficiently capacious to describe the singular achievement of Joseph Frank's five-volume study of the life of the great Russian novelist Fyodor Dostoevsky. One critic, writing upon the publication of the final volume, casually tagged the series as the ultimate work on Dostoevsky "in any language, and quite possibly forever." Frank himself had not originally intended to undertake such a massive work. The endeavor began in the early 1960s as an exploration of Dostoevsky's fiction, but it later became apparent to Frank that a deeper appreciation of the fiction would require a more ambitious engagement with the writer's life, directly caught up as Dostoevsky was with the cultural and political movements of mid- and late-nineteenth-century Russia. Already in his forties, Frank undertook to learn Russian and embarked on what would become a five-volume work comprising more than 2,500 pages. The result is an intellectual history of nineteenth-century Russia, with Dostoevsky's mind as a refracting prism. The volumes have won numerous prizes, among them the National Book Critics Circle Award for Biography, the Christian Gauss Award of Phi Beta Kappa, the Los Angeles Times Book Prize , and the James Russell Lowell Prize of the Modern Language Association.
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Very good in very good dust jacket. No markings. Binding solid. Jacket has light shelving wear. Sewn binding. Cloth over boards. 412 p. Contains: Illustrations. Dostoevsky, 3. Audience: General/trade.
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Very Good. Size: 8x6x1; Hardcover and dust jacket. Good binding and cover. Shelf wear. Some water damage to jacket. Dust jacket in protective mylar cover. Owner's name on front end page, else unmarked. xvi, 401 p., ill., 24 cm.
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Near Fine in Very Good jacket. First edition. Small quarto. xv, 395pp. Illustrated from black and white photographs. Light foxing on page and cloth edges, else near fine in a lightly rubbed, very good dust jacket with modest edgewear, old creases on the flaps, and a bit of interior foxing. Inscribed by the author on the front fly: "For Mary McCarthy & Jim West-with much love, Joe Frank, Stanford, Ca Feb 1987." The third volume of Joseph Frank's five-volume series on Dostoevsky.