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The 2nd volume of Joseph Frank's 5 volume biography of Dostoevsky. It is so expansive because it covers so much other biographers (of any life) would rather cut and avoid in the interest of space. But I appreciate the detailed approach. I'll highlight my favorite example from this entry: when Frank zooms in on a particular letter FD wrote to his brother Mikhail requesting the latter send him books in prison he specifically requests Mikhail "send [him] the Carus." For years scholars couldn't make sense of this script and assumed FD was requesting his brother send him the "Coran", the Muslim Holy Book, but deeper research revealed Dostoevsky was interested in Carl Gustav Carus, a predecessor to Freud whose theories of the unconscious FD found compelling.