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To the Finland Station: A Study in the Writing and Acting of History
by Edmund Wilson
- Used
- good
- Paperback
- Condition
- Good
- Seller
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Harpers Ferry, West Virginia, United States
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About This Item
Doubleday Anchor Books, 1953. Soft cover. Good. 502 pages, with index. First Doubleday Anchor paperback edition of collection of essays on socialism first published 1940. Touches on Michelet, Vico, Anatole France, Saint-Simon, Fourier, Marx, Engels, Lassalle, Bakunin, Lenin and Trotsky. Mass-market paperback, wear to corners, spine creased and sunned, a few pages dog-eared. Name of former owner and crossed-out earlier name on front free end paper, underscoring and/or marginalia on approximately 25 pages.
Synopsis
A history of Socialist revolutionary thought from the early 19th century through Lenin's arrival at the Finland station in 1917.
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- Bookseller
- Berthoff Books
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- RBD-95
- Title
- To the Finland Station: A Study in the Writing and Acting of History
- Author
- Edmund Wilson
- Format/Binding
- Soft cover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Paperback
- Publisher
- Doubleday Anchor Books
- Date Published
- 1953
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- MICHELET, VICO, ANATOLE FRANCE, SAINT-SIMON, FOURIER, SOCIALISM, MARX, ENGELS, LASSALLE, BAKUNIN, LENIN, TROTSKY, RUSSIAN REVOLUTION
- Bookseller catalogs
- European History; Politics; Edmund Wilson;
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Berthoff Books
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Harpers Ferry, West Virginia
About Berthoff Books
Berthoff Books sells books previously owned by the late Warner B. Berthoff, Professor of English and American Literature, emeritus, at Harvard University, and members of his family. Some books contain marginalia by Warner Berthoff, the late Prof. Ann E. Berthoff (U. Mass-Boston, English composition and rhetoric), or others, which we aim to describe accurately. Our inventory features English and American fiction and poetry, 20th-century literary criticism, world literature, history, and philosophy. Other categories are history and politics of Australia, Asia, South Africa and the Middle East; intelligence agencies and gnostic beliefs; Russian literature and criticism; and Russian and Soviet history.
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