Selected Letters [Hardcover]

Maksim Gorky (Author), Andrew Barratt (Editor), Barry P. Scherr (Editor)

Book Description

ISBN-10: 0198151756 | ISBN-13: 978-0198151753 | Publication Date: March 20, 1997

This volume presents a collection of letters by one of the most important figures in the literary and intellectual life of Russia in the later nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Covering the years between 1889 and Gorky's death in 1936, this selection allows Gorky to tell the story of his life in his own words, and supplies a unique and fascinating commentary on the cultural and political developments in which he was so profoundly engaged. His letters are of considerable interest in terms of their representation of the development of Russian literature, the light they shed on many writers and cultural-political figures of the period (including Lenin, Chekhov, Tolstoy, and Pasternak) and as period documents in their own right.

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Review

"...Barratt and Scherr are surely correct that it is the duty of scholars to find and publish new material, and their Selected Letters is an outstanding example of such scholarship....it presents in one volume the tremendously varied opinions and observations of a writer who is likely to retain a prominant place in Russian literary history."--The Russian Review

Language Notes

Text: English (translation)
Original Language: Russian

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Product Details

• Hardcover: 424 pages
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA (March 20, 1997)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0198151756
• ISBN-13: 978-0198151753
• Product Dimensions: 9.5 x 6.3 x 1.1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.7 pounds
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #5,429,710 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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