{"product_id":"9780810115163","title":"A Writer's Diary : Volume 1: 1873-1876","description":"\u003cp\u003e Author(s): Dostoevsky, F. M. \u003cbr\u003e Binding: Paperback, \u003cbr\u003e Date of Publication: 30\/07\/1997,\u003cbr\u003e Pagination: 822 pages,\u003cbr\u003e ISBN13\\EAN\\SKU: 9780810115163,\u003cbr\u003e Description: \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe essential entries from Dostoevsky's complete Diary, called his boldest experiment in literary form, are now available in this abridged edition; it is a uniquely encyclopedic forum of fictional and nonfictional genres. A Writer's Diary began as a column in a literary journal, but by 1876 Dostoevsky was able to bring it out as a complete monthly publication with himself as an editor, publisher, and sole contributor, suspending work on The Brothers Karamazov to do so.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e The Diary's radical format was matched by the extreme range of its contents. In a single frame it incorporated an astonishing variety of material: short stories; humorous sketches; reports on sensational crimes; historical predictions; portraits of famous people; autobiographical pieces; and plans for stories, some of which were never written while others appeared later in the Diary itself. A range of authorial and narrative voices and stances and an elaborate scheme of allusions and cross-references preserve and present Dostoevsky's conception of his work as a literary whole.  Selected from the two-volume set, this abridged edition of A Writer's Diary appears in a single paperback volume, along with a new condensed introduction by editor Gary Saul Morson.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Griffin Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57697361658229,"sku":"9780810115163","price":35.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0379\/1365\/7388\/files\/9780810115163.jpg?v=1793093302","url":"https:\/\/www.griffinbooksonline.info\/products\/9780810115163","provider":"Griffin Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}