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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Seller's Description:
Very Good. 1972 stated 1st printing, Fine/NearFine DJ in Mylar, clean & bright, dustjacket has tiny creases at head of spine, very mild shelfwear-in new Mylar with price intact, firm corners & sound binding, no markings found, not a remainder, a nice copy.
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Very good(+) in very good jacket. 280 pages, 12mo, red cloth, d.w., New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, (1972). A very good(+) copy in a very good dust wrapper.
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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.
