Dostoevsky - Poet Prisoner and Parajournalist

by John Jones

In this passionate and tender book, John Jones discusses the narrative techniques and linguistic subtleties of the novels of Dostoevsky.

365 pages, Hardcover

First published August 11, 1983

About the author

Henry John Franklin Jones (known as John Jones) was an English academic, a Fellow of Merton College, Oxford, and Oxford University's 38th Professor of Poetry (1978-1983).

Jones wrote books on diverse literary topics including Greek tragedy, Wordsworth, Shakespeare, as well as a novel, The Same God (1972).