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ANNA AKHMATOVA: Poet and Prophet.
by [Akhmatova, Anna 1889-1966, pseudonym of Anna Andreyevna Gorenko ] Reeder, Roberta
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Fine in fine dust jacket./fine
- ISBN 10
- 0312112416
- ISBN 13
- 9780312112417
- Seller
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About This Item
New York:: St Martin's,, (1994.). Hardcover first edition -. Fine in fine dust jacket.. First printing. The definitive biography of this Russian writer, one of the most tragic and greatest poets of the 20th century and a writer who revolutionized modern poetry . The author spent 10 years writing this, has devoted much of her scholarly life to the study of Akhmatova, edited the Complete Poems and had access to hundreds of otherwise restricted documents. Presents a vivid picture of life among Soviet writers during the Revolution, and under Stalin and finally under Krushchev. Photographs. Very entensive notes and bibliography. Index xv, 619 pp.
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- Title
- ANNA AKHMATOVA: Poet and Prophet.
- Author
- [Akhmatova, Anna 1889-1966, pseudonym of Anna Andreyevna Gorenko ] Reeder, Roberta
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover first edition -
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine in fine dust jacket.
- Jacket Condition
- fine
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0312112416
- ISBN 13
- 9780312112417
- Publisher
- St Martin's,
- Place of Publication
- New York:
- Date Published
- (1994.)
- Keywords
- russia, soviet union, poetry, modigliani, osip mandelstam, pasternak, nicholas gumilyov,
- Bookseller catalogs
- Literary biographies;
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