{"product_id":"dostoevsky-the-seeds-of-revolt-18211849-9780691013558","title":"Dostoevsky: The Seeds of Revolt  1821-1849","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe term \"biography\" seems insufficiently capacious to describe the singular achievement of Joseph Franks 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 Dostoevskys fiction  but it later became apparent to Frank that a deeper appreciation of the fiction would require a more ambitious engagement with the writers 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 Dostoevskys 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.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45960451424309,"sku":"ByrdShop_0691013551","price":31.46,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780691013558.jpg?v=1788287629","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/dostoevsky-the-seeds-of-revolt-18211849-9780691013558","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}