{"product_id":"2026200015813-secondhand-firebrand-the-life-of-dostoevsky","title":"Firebrand: The Life Of Dostoevsky","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition remarks:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBook: Good\u003cbr\u003eJacket: Wear and tear with damage\u003cbr\u003ePages: Tanning and foxing\u003cbr\u003eMarkings: Previous owner\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFew lives in literary history burn as fiercely as that of Fyodor Dostoevsky — epileptic, compulsive gambler, political prisoner, and one of the greatest novelists who ever lived. In Firebrand: The Life of Dostoevsky, Henry Troyat chronicles the turbulent biography of this Russian titan, tracing his path from a difficult Moscow childhood, through a harrowing mock execution and years of Siberian exile, to the triumphant creation of masterworks such as Crime and Punishment, The Idiot, and The Brothers Karamazov. Translated with vigour by Norbert Guterman and illustrated with striking woodcuts by S. Mrozewski, this portrait is as dramatic and uncompromising as its subject.\n\nTroyat, himself a celebrated biographer and novelist of Russian heritage, brings an intimate cultural authority to this narrative that few Western writers could match. He does not merely recount events; he illuminates the psychological and spiritual crucibles from which Dostoevsky's singular genius was forged, connecting the man's suffering directly to the profound moral and existential themes that define his fiction. Written with the propulsive energy of a novel, Firebrand stands as an essential companion to Dostoevsky's own work — and leaves the reader asking how one man could contain so much darkness and still produce so much light.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Secondhand Stock","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49203250135259,"sku":"2026200015813-SECONDHAND","price":15.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0523\/7646\/9701\/files\/a478faa5-053c-4d33-9588-197e8a44b6f1.png?v=1788146409","url":"https:\/\/bookgrocer.com\/products\/2026200015813-secondhand-firebrand-the-life-of-dostoevsky","provider":"Book Grocer","version":"1.0","type":"link"}