Dostoevsky: A Writer's Life - Hardcover

FYODOR DOSTOYEVSKY - A Writer's Life

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Near Fine. First UK Edition. First impression of the first UK edition. The book was first published in the US by Viking Penguin in 1987. The book is bound using the American boards and sheets. With monochrome plates. ***Very good in cream boards over a maroon cloth spine, with gilt titles to the spine. Top edge and fore-edge of page block lightly foxed. Head and tail of spine slightly creased. Top corner of the front board bumped, which has affected the first few pages. Boards clean and unmarked. The paper stock is untrimmed at the fore-edge as with many US editions. No internal inscriptions. Spine tight. ***In a near fine colour illustrated dustwrapper, which has not been price-clipped, and retains the original publisher's printed price of £16.95 net. Dustwrapper very slightly rubbed and creased at the edges. No creasing. No tears. Slight fading to the spine of the dustwrapper. ***235 mm x 162 mm. 437 pages including Bibliography and Index at the rear. ***Contents: 1. Childhood and Boyhood, 2. St. Petersburg, 3. Dream and Catastrophe, 4. At the Scaffold, 5. Siberia, 6. Homecoming, 7. Years of Crisis, 8. Marriage and Flight, 9. Exile, 10. Back on Russian Soil, 11. The Prophet, 12. Triumph and Death. ***'This is the first one-volume biography to appear in our generation, and its masterly account of Dostoyevsky's life outstrips previous works in its reliance on the most recent scholarship and in its vivid and acute portrayal of a human Dostoyevsky. Geir Kjetsaa, a Norwegian scholar of international repute, undertook this biography with the aim of writing "a documentary that will be useful and pleasurable to the growing number of Dostoyevsky readers." Kjetsaa's deft integration of primary sources with a lively narrative succeeds in creating a coherent and intimate account of the writer's life.' [Taken from the front flap of the dustwrapper] ***A first impression of the first UK edition of this literary biography of the Russian 'existentialist' writer Fyodor Dostoyevsky, in nice collectable condition. ***For all our books, postage is charged at cost, allowing for packaging: any shipping rates indicated on ABE are an average only: we will reduce the P & P charge where appropriate - please contact us for postal rates for heavier books and sets etc. Artikel-Nr. 7248

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