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Dostoevsky: The Years of Ordeal, 1850-1859
by Joseph Frank
- Used
- good
- Hardcover
- Signed
- Condition
- Good/Good
- ISBN 10
- 0691065764
- ISBN 13
- 9780691065762
- Seller
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About This Item
Princeton University Press, 1983. Hardcover. Good/Good. 320 pages plus 15 front matter and preface, with index, 13 b&w illustrations (cuts). The second volume of Prof. Frank's five-volume literary history of Dostoevsky's work. Medium 8vo, beige cloth with black quarter, white and gilt lettering on spine, scant wear, two smudges to boards, light dust soil to top edge, faint foxing to fore-edge and end papers. Inscribed by author at New Year's 1984 on second fep to Profs. Warner and Ann Berthoff, "old and true friends, whose unflagging encouragement and support over the years has helped to keep me going"; their marginalia (mostly small marks, a few notes) observed on approximately 40 pages, additional notes on rear end papers.
Synopsis
Abridged ed. of author's work in 5 v.: Dostoevsky. c1976-2002. Includes bibliographical references and index.
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- Berthoff Books
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- WBB-1131
- Title
- Dostoevsky: The Years of Ordeal, 1850-1859
- Author
- Joseph Frank
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Jacket Condition
- Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- ISBN 10
- 0691065764
- ISBN 13
- 9780691065762
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press
- Place of Publication
- Princeton
- Date Published
- 1983
- Keywords
- RUSSIAN LITERATURE, PRISONS, SIBERIA, PETRASHEVSKY CIRCLE
- Bookseller catalogs
- Russian and Soviet literature;
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Berthoff Books sells books previously owned by the late Warner B. Berthoff, Professor of English and American Literature, emeritus, at Harvard University, and members of his family. Some books contain marginalia by Warner Berthoff, the late Prof. Ann E. Berthoff (U. Mass-Boston, English composition and rhetoric), or others, which we aim to describe accurately. Our inventory features English and American fiction and poetry, 20th-century literary criticism, world literature, history, and philosophy. Other categories are history and politics of Australia, Asia, South Africa and the Middle East; intelligence agencies and gnostic beliefs; Russian literature and criticism; and Russian and Soviet history.
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