{"product_id":"dostoevsky-by-joseph-frank-9780691155999","title":"Dostoevsky","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eJoseph Frank's award-winning, five-volume \u003cem\u003eDostoevsky\u003c\/em\u003e is widely recognised 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 skilfully abridged and condensed in this single, highly readable volume with a new preface by the author.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eCarefully preserving the original work's acclaimed narrative style and combination of biography, intellectual history, and literary criticism, \u003cem\u003eDostoevsky: A Writer in His Time\u003c\/em\u003e illuminates the writer's works—from his first novel \u003cem\u003ePoor Folk\u003c\/em\u003e to \u003cem\u003eCrime and Punishment\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eThe Brothers Karamazov\u003c\/em\u003e—by setting them in their personal, historical, and above all, ideological context.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eMore 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"NewSouth Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47558916309228,"sku":"9780691155999","price":115.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/9780691155999-dostoevsky.jpg?v=1776921527","url":"https:\/\/bookhero.co.nz\/products\/dostoevsky-by-joseph-frank-9780691155999","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}