Tsitadel' [The Citadel].: Translation by M. Abkina. Preface by O. Nemerovskaya. Book design by V. Zenkovich.
by Cronin, Archibald
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- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- In good condition. Slightly wears at the edges and spine, bookstore’s stamp at the back endpaper.
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About This Item
One of 10 000 copies printed.
First Russian edition of The Citadel.
Third Cronin's book in Russian.
Cronin was one of the few contemporary British novelists to be published in the USSR. His social-problem novels and especially The Citadel (1937) were most widely read as examples of both technical modernization and social criticism. 'To some extent, of course, the Citadel was simply useful anti-British propaganda: Britain's medical system as described by Cronin is the product of a decaying political and social system' (McKibbin R. Democracy and Political Culture: Studies in Modern British History. Oxford University press, 2019). That's why the Soviet medical circles were impressed by the novel.
The first three Cronin's books in Russian were translated by Mariya Abkina (1892-?), who was a part of 'the Soviet school' of literary translation headed by Ivan Kashkin. In 1941 her translation of The Citadel was republished, which was quite rare for foreign books in the USSR.
We couldn't trace any copy of this edition in USA or European libraries via OCLC.
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- Bookseller
- Biblionne (RS)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 5882
- Title
- Tsitadel' [The Citadel].
- Author
- Cronin, Archibald
- Illustrator
- Illustrations by Yu. Petrov.
- Format/Binding
- In publisher’s binding.
- Book Condition
- Used - In good condition. Slightly wears at the edges and spine, bookstore’s stamp at the back endpaper.
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Khudozhestvennaya literatura
- Place of Publication
- Leningrad
- Date Published
- 1940
- Pages
- frontispiece, 431, [1] pp., ill.
- Size
- 8vo
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Bookseller catalogs
- Translations; Scottish literature;
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