Search Results: Authors starting with P from Gary Menchen

Edith Pargeter's Second World War Trilogy following the experiences of Jin Benison: The Eighth Champion of Christendom; Reluctant Odyssey; Warfare Accomplished. Trade paperbacks, published by Headline in 1990. The first volume is a second printing. All are read condition: creases to spine, but tight enough.From the back of one: "Each title in this remarkable trilogy carries the distinction - rare in any novels of World War II or any other war - of being written almost contemporaneously with the action. They convey the immediacy of journalism as well as the more profound qualities the reviews proclaim."

[New York]: Pantheon [1959]. 192pp. First printing. Translated with preface and notes by David Magarshack. With an essay "On Translating Shakespeare" translated by Manya Harari. Hardcover with dust jacket both in very good condition.

595pp. A translation of Schastye , written in 1947, and the winner of a Stalin Prize. A novel about postwar reconstruction in the Crimea; considered a Cult of Stalin novel: "a crude contribution to the Party's campaign against Cosmopolitanism" -- Kosak, Dictionary of Russian Literature.

Glas: [2005]. 287pp. Wrappers, very good condition. Includes a short story "The Commissar" by Vassily Grossman.

"In the heroic mold about World War II" - Kosack. New York: Harper and Brothers [1944]. 262pp. First edition Stamped: "Sample Volume Please Return to Manufacturing Dpt. Harper & Brothers". While Perventsev was an established writer in the party line, his writing was so bad that even the most dogmatic of critics had trouble finding something nice to say (paraphasing Kosack, again).

Petrov, Vladimir. My Life as a Slave Laborer in the Siberian Mines. New York: Farrar, Straus and Company [c.1949]. Hardcover, no dustjacket; top of spine badly pulled: see photo. An early account of the gulag.

559pp. Polvoi was a journalist and war correspondent; this long account of a war hero is based on an actual person. Winner of the Stalin Prize (second class) and made into an opera by Sergei Prokofiev (his Opus 117, currently available from Melodiya).

Russian Literature Triquarterly, aka RLT. Issue Number 10, Fall 1974. 450pp plus adverts. Special topic: The Golden Age.

Russian Literature Triquarterly, aka RLT. Issue number 4, Fall 1972. 472pp plus adverts. Wrappers. Special topic: Symbolism.