Dostoevsky 1821-1881

by Edward Hallett Carr and Preface) Carr, Edward Hallett (D.S. Mirsky

Book Overview

The bare events of Dostoevsky's life - his father murdered by peasants, his own ordeal before a firing squad, then exile in Siberia, his epilepsy, gambling, poverty and debts - go far to account for his strange intensity of vision. This biography, first published in 1931, traces his wayward development, from his strict and secluded childhood to his debut as 'literary pimple', through his years of anguish, to his maturity as artist and final apotheosis...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1138793280
• ISBN13: 9781138793286
• Release Date: August 2014
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 254 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.3" x 9.2"