Author Name: Hingley, Ronald
Title: Dostoyevsky: His Life and Work
Binding: Hardcover
Book Condition: Fine in Near Fine dust jacket
Edition: First Edition; First Printing
Publisher: NY Charles Scribner's Sons 1978
ISBN Number: 0684159163 / 9780684159164
Seller ID: 16469
222 pages; Fine/Near Fine. Attractive olive green cloth boards with gilt lettering. Over 32 illustrations. Solid, Clean. DJ has small bit of shelf rub at back panel bottom edge. Now in protective sleeve. An excellent gift! Dostoyevsky's was a life rich in paradoxes, sudden reversals, and smoldering obsessions. His first published work was enthusiastically hailed and then reviled by Russia's greatest critic, Belinsky; condemned to death by firing squad for subversive activities against the tyrant Nicholas II, he spent ten years in Siberian prison and exile instead; he swung from early socialism to reactionary right-wing attitudes, extreme patriotism, and religious fanaticism; in the young stenographer, half his age, whom he dictated many of his works, he found a devoted wife; he died celebrated and worsipped as a national seer.
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