Description
The description for this book, Dostoevsky: The Years of Ordeal, 1850-1859, will be forthcoming.
About the Author
Joseph Frank (1918-2013) was professor emeritus of Slavic and comparative literature at Stanford and Princeton. The five volumes of his Dostoevsky biography won a National Book Critics Circle Award, a Los Angeles Times Book Prize, two James Russell Lowell Prizes, and two Christian Gauss Awards, and have been translated into numerous languages.
Reviews
"[A]nother impressive installment in one of modern scholarship's largest biographical achievements."--Kirkus Reviews "In its scale and scholarly care, Frank's study, even at this preliminary stage, has no rival throughout the extensive critical and biographical literature on Dostoevsky."--George Steiner, New Yorker
Awards
Winner of National Book Critics Circle Award (Biography) 1984.
Book Information
ISBN 9780691014227
Author Joseph Frank
Format Paperback
Page Count 336
Imprint Princeton University Press
Publisher Princeton University Press
Weight(grams) 454g
About the Author
Joseph Frank (1918-2013) was professor emeritus of Slavic and comparative literature at Stanford and Princeton. The five volumes of his Dostoevsky biography won a National Book Critics Circle Award, a Los Angeles Times Book Prize, two James Russell Lowell Prizes, and two Christian Gauss Awards, and have been translated into numerous languages.
Reviews
"[A]nother impressive installment in one of modern scholarship's largest biographical achievements."--Kirkus Reviews "In its scale and scholarly care, Frank's study, even at this preliminary stage, has no rival throughout the extensive critical and biographical literature on Dostoevsky."--George Steiner, New Yorker
Awards
Winner of National Book Critics Circle Award (Biography) 1984.
Book Information
ISBN 9780691014227
Author Joseph Frank
Format Paperback
Page Count 336
Imprint Princeton University Press
Publisher Princeton University Press
Weight(grams) 454g
