Thomas Y. Crowell Company (Apollo Editions), 1966. Soft cover. Very Good. 276 pages, translation of work published 1889. Introduction by Richard Pipes (Harvard scholar, author of Russia under the Old Regime). Brandes, a famous Danish literary critic, had visited Russia in 1887 as the guest of a writers' society. Divided into nine chapters on Russian society and culture, seven on Russian writers including Pushkin, Gogol and the Ukrainian influence, Dostoevsky, Tolstoy, Turgenev. ToC provides a precis of what's in each chapter. Trade paperback, moderate shelf wear and rubbing to wraps, university bookshop stamp on fore-edge, binding tight, pages unmarked.

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Bookseller: Berthoff Books (US)
Bookseller's Inventory #: WBB-1098
Title: Impressions of Russia
Author: Georg Brandes, tr. Samuel C. Eastman
Format/Binding: Soft cover
Book Condition: Used - Very Good
Quantity Available: 1
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Thomas Y. Crowell Company (Apollo Editions)
Date Published: 1966
Weight: 0.00 lbs
Keywords: RICHARD PIPES, TOLSTOY, DOSTOEVSKY, LITERARY HISTORY, TURGENEV, PUSHKIN, GOGOL
Bookseller catalogs: Literary criticism; Politics; Russian and Soviet literature;

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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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TOC: table of contents
Trade Paperback: Used to indicate any paperback book that is larger than a mass-market paperback and is often more similar in size to a hardcover...
Tight: Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
Shelf Wear: Shelf wear (shelfwear) describes damage caused over time to a book by placing and removing a book from a shelf. This damage is...
Rubbing: Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.