Dostoevsky : a writer in his time / Joseph Frank ; edited by Mary Petrusewicz.

Abridged ed. of author's work in 5 v.: Dostoevsky. c1976-2002.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

The seeds of revolt, 1821-1849. Prelude ; The family ; The religious and cultural background ; The academy of engineers ; The two romanticisms ; The Gogol period ; Poor folk ; Dostoevsky and the PleÌiade ; Belinsky and Dostoevsky : I ; Feuilletons and experiments ; Belinsky and Dostoevsky : II ; The Beketov and Petrashevsky circles ; Dostoevsky and Speshnev -- The years of ordeal, 1850-1859. The Peter-and-Paul Fortress ; Katorga ; "Monsters in their misery" ; Private Dostoevsky ; A Russian heart ; The Siberian novellas ; Homecoming -- The stir of liberation, 1860-1865. Into the fray ; An aesthetics of transcendence ; The insulted and injured ; The era of proclamations ; Portrait of a nihilist ; Time : the final months ; Winter notes on summer impressions ; An emancipated woman, a tormented lover ; The prison of utopia ; Notes from underground ; The end of Epoch -- The miraculous years, 1865-1871. Khlestakov in Wiesbaden ; From novella to novel ; Crime and punishment ; "A little diamond" ; The gambler ; Escape and exile ; In search of a novel ; An inconsolable father ; The idiot ; The pamphlet and the poem ; Fathers, sons, and Stavrogin ; Exile's return ; History and myth in Demons ; The book of the impostors -- The mantle of the prophet, 1871-1881. The citizen ; Narodnichestvo : Russian populism ; Bad ems ; A raw youth ; A public figure ; The diary of a writer, 1876-1877 ; A new novel ; The great debate ; Rebellion and the Grand Inquisitor ; Terror and martial law ; The Pushkin festival ; Controversies and conclusions ; The Brothers Karamazov : books 1-4 ; The Brothers Karamazov : books 5-6 ; The Brothers Karamazov : books 7-12 ; Death and transfiguration.