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Korol’ Lir [King Lear].
by Shakespeare William
- Condition
- Used - In good condition, edges slightly rubbed, small losses on the spine, foxing.
- Edition
- frontispiece, 161, [3] pp., ill.
- Published
- 1949
- Binding
- In publisher’s illustrated wrappers.
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Seller
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Sremska Mitrovica, SRB
- Item Price
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A$1,728.72
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Description:
Moskva, Khudozhestvennaya literatura, 1949.
Limited to 10 000 copies.
First edition of King Lear in Pasternak's translations. Signed for print on November 24, 1948.
Pasternak finished King Lear's translation in the fall of 1947. He described King Lear as 'quiet tragedy' in which love is the main victim.
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