Includes indexes.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 213-215).

"Ronald Hingley's biography of Fyodor Dostoevsky, though from the late 1970s, is a perfect place to start for a student curious about the major themes that weave through, and interconnect, the works of this major author, as well as how his literature grew out of his tumultuous, event-packed life. Today, as yesterday, every intelligent person should know something about Dostoevsky, and Hingley's biography is extremely readable, and presents the author's often extreme philosophy and literary views as a product of his life. Dostoevsky is presented throughout the bio as a person, too often beset by emotional storms that perverted his humanity toward Jews, Poles, Western Europeans, socialists and the like, but Hingley also does his best to present this great Russian writer as a human being in the round, and possessed of both ferocious tenacity in working through his literary creations, and an often surprising receptiveness to the meek and the forgotten, to whose lot he remained loyal and empathetic throughout his life."--Review by M. A. Seifter viewed on Amazon.com June 30, 2022.

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