Dostoevsky 1821-1881 / Edward Hallett Carr.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Carr, Edward Hallett, 1892-1982., author.

Series:

Routledge Library Editions: Tolstoy and Dostoevsky

Routledge Library Editions: Tolstoy and Dostoevsky ; Volume 2

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Dostoyevsky, Fyodor, 1821-1881.

Dostoyevsky, Fyodor.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (259 p.)

Place of Publication:

Abingdon, Oxon : Routledge, 2014.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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 as Russian patriot. Written some fifty years after Dostoevsky's death, when the material necessary for a full study first became available, Carr

Contents:

""Cover ""; ""Half Title ""; ""Title Page ""; ""Copyright Page ""; ""Original Title Page ""; ""Original Copyright Page ""; ""Table of Contents ""; ""Introductory Note""; ""Book One""; ""I. Childhood""; ""II. Early Years in Petersburg""; ""III. Firstfruits""; ""IV. Catastrophe""; ""V. The House of the Dead""; ""Book Two""; ""VI. Exile and First Marriage""; ""VII. Journalistic Experiment""; ""VIII. Intimate Life""; ""IX. Years of Anguish""; ""X. Interludes mainly Sentimental""; ""Book Three""; ""XI. Annus Mirabilis""; ""XII. First Months Abroad""; ""XIII. Residence Abroad Continued""

""XIV. The Ethical Problem Crime and Punishment""""XV. The Ethical Ideal The Idiot""; ""XVI. Ethics and Politics The Devils""; ""Book Four""; ""XVII. Return to Russia""; ""XVIII. Dostoevsky as Psychologist A Raw Youth""; ""XIX. Dostoevsky as Publicist The Journal of an Author""; ""XX. Dostoevsky as Prophet The Brothers Karamazov""; ""XXI. Apotheosis""; ""XXII. Epilogue""; ""Index""

Notes:

First published in 1931.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-317-64492-1

1-138-80335-9

1-315-76135-1

1-317-64493-X

9781315761350

OCLC:

889676592