Of Russia and the Russians I know nothing but of the effect upon myself and my ideas of life that Russia and the Russians have made during these last three years I know something. You are perfectly free to say that neither myself nor my ideas of life are of the slightest importance to any one.
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Secret City worth the Struggle,
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This is a book that needs to be really read, if you are looking for light entertainment, it's probably not going to do it for you. There are many layers to this onion, and it takes a dedicated reader to find its gems. It's worth the read just to evolve, as the characters do, into a more understanding person of those different from us.
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I eagerly purchased this book after reading the description on the back. It purported to be Walpole's 'masterpiece' according to the Daily Telegraph, and apparently was awarded the James Tait Black Memorial Prize for fiction in 1919.Set at the time of the Russian revolution (for clarity, the second one, not the first) I spent the entire 446 pages waiting for something, anything, to grab me as either a plot, or a central thread, or even a connection really as to what this book was about. Divided into three sections, the book follows many lives intertwined by different arrivals in Petrograd, Russia, and a family already living there. There is vague mention of a 'monster sighting' beneath a frozen river....there is political intrigue...there is a love story...and there is the revolution. But sadly, none of these themes ever emerges victorious over the others in captivating a reader's interest, at least this reader, and by the end of the tale you are left wondering what you just read. There are far better portraits of revolutionary Russia, pre-, during, and post-, written by native authors. I highly recommend their works over this one, as it never fully hit the mark, and having recently read my first Tolstoy, I was far more convinced of the landscape painted by him than I was by Walpole's. Other novels by the same author sound intriguing, but this is, in my humble opinion, not one to get very excited about. His writing style is good, his characters are realistic, but his story overall left me quite flat, as I was never quite able to determine what it really was.
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Ivan Andreievitch, Vera Michailovna, Alexei Petrovitch, Boris Grogoff, Nicolai Leontievitch, Henry Bohun, English Prospect, Jerry Lawrence, Uncle Vanya, Boris Nicolaievitch, Ivan Petrovitch, Nicholas Markovitch, Nicholas Station, Anglisky Prospect, Baron Wilderling, Belgian Consul, Nina Michailovna, Novaya Jezn, Vassily Ostrov, Easter Eve, French Revolution, Red Square New!
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Ivan Andreievitch, Vera Michailovna, Alexei Petrovitch, Boris Grogoff, Nicolai Leontievitch, Henry Bohun, English Prospect, Jerry Lawrence, Uncle Vanya, Boris Nicolaievitch, Ivan Petrovitch, Nicholas Markovitch, Nicholas Station, Anglisky Prospect, Baron Wilderling, Belgian Consul, Nina Michailovna, Novaya Jezn, Vassily Ostrov, Easter Eve, French Revolution, Red Square New!
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- The Dark Forest by Hugh Walpole in Front Matter
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- English Literature During the Last Half Century by J. W. Cunliffe on page 313, and Back Matter
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