DOSTOEVSKY VOL 3

This third volume begins with the writer's return to St Petersburg, after a ten-year exile. Dostoevsky came back to the capital determined to re-establish his literary reputation to be accepted as a writer of the first rank. Spiritually transformed, he had also gained in physical vigour and self-assurance, despite the debilitating hardships of prison and army life. In this lucid study of five years, a period previously passed over rapidly, Professor Frank describes the intricate process of the novelist's self definition and the reshaping of his social-political outlook, in interaction with all the forces of the 'stir of liberation' under Alexander II.