A Window on Russia is a collection of Edmund Wilson's papers on Russian writers and the Russian language (which he taught himself to read), written between 1943 and 1971. Writers discussed include Pushkin, Gogol, Chekov, Turgenev, Tolstoy, among others. "In A Window on Russia , which Wilson modestly calls 'a handful of disconnected pieces, written at various times when I happened to be interested in the various authors, ' we encounter that rare pleasure of entering a living world where the dead hand of academia never ...
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A Window on Russia is a collection of Edmund Wilson's papers on Russian writers and the Russian language (which he taught himself to read), written between 1943 and 1971. Writers discussed include Pushkin, Gogol, Chekov, Turgenev, Tolstoy, among others. "In A Window on Russia , which Wilson modestly calls 'a handful of disconnected pieces, written at various times when I happened to be interested in the various authors, ' we encounter that rare pleasure of entering a living world where the dead hand of academia never casts its shadow." - Kirkus Reviews
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Fine in Fine jacket. Red cloth in yellow and black jacket, 12mo. 1st printing. 280pp. Compiles previously uncollected writings on Russian language and literature, 1943-1971. Includes work on Pushkin, Tyutchev, Gogol, Chekhov, Turgenev, Tolstoy, Sukhovo-Kobylin, Solzhenitsyn and Svetlana Alliluyeva. Also includes initiating essay of Wilson-Nabokov debate on VNs translation of "Eugene Onegin." Fine/Fine. One touch of surface loss to each spine end. Otherwise book and jacket are as new: bright, tight and sharp. In Brodart. Not ex-lib.
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Very Good in Very Good jacket. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1972. 1st printing. Tight and unmarked in full cloth binding. 280pp. Jacket is rubbed, with creasing to front flap. In a protective mylar cover. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 12mo-over 6"-8" Tall.