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

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Prelude -- The family -- The religious and cultural background -- The academy of engineers -- The two romanticisms -- The Gogol period -- Poor folk -- Belinsky and Dostoevsky I -- Belinsky and Dostoevsky II -- The Beketov and Petrashevsky circles -- Dostoevsky and Speshnev -- The Peter-and-Paul Fortress -- Katorga -- Monsters in their misery -- Private Dostoevsky -- A Russian heart -- The Siberian novellas -- Homecoming -- Into the fray -- An aesthetics of transcendence -- The insulted and injured -- Theera 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 -- 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 The devils -- The book of the impostors -- The citizen -- Narodnichestvo : Russian populism -- 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.