A Chakovsky (3 results)

SIGNED BY CO-EDITOR AND CONTRIBUTOR SERGEI CHAKOVSKY. First printing (per publisher's requisite number line upon copyright page). xiv, 310 pages. Hardcover: H 23.5cm x L 15.75cm. Dust jacket rubbed, slight surface nick at spine heel, old price sticker still affixed to front flap. Red cloth with bright gilt stamping to spine. Pages are bright and clean. Binding remains fairly crisp. A fine copy in a very good+ dust jacket with Chakovsky's ink signature upon the title page. With Preface by M. Thomas Inge, Introduction by Sergei Chakovsky, Notes (i.e. bibliographical references) on pages 285-295, Notes on Contributors, and Index. Features fifteen essays: "The Formation of the Secular Literary Tradition in Colonial America" by Ekaterina Stetsenko; "The Romantic Poetics of Hawthorne" by Maya Koreneva; "Limits of Herman Melville's Universe" by Yuri Kovalev; "Mark Twain's 'Autobiography' as an Aesthetic Problem" by Pavel Balditzin; "The Russian Man at Russell Square: Reflections on the Critical Conception of T.S. Eliot" by Dmitry Urnov; "Eugene O'Neill and the Ways of American Drama" by Maya Koreneva; "The Metaphor of History in the Work of F. Scott Fitzgerald" by V.M. Tolmatchoff; "Ernest Hemingway: The Road to Literary Craft" by Natalia Yakimenko; "'The Whole History of the Human Heart on the Head of a Pin': Toward Faulkner's Philosophy of Composition" by Sergei Chakovsky; "The Tower and Around: A View of Vladimir Nabokov" by Nikolai Anastasiev; "Character in American Fiction" by Tatiana Morozova; "In Search of Community: The Individual and Society in the New American Novel" by Tamara Denisova; "The Soviet View of American Feminism with a Side Look at Our Native Antifeminism" by Maya Tugusheva; "Neoconservatism and American Literature of the 1980s" by Alexandr Muliarchik; and "The Prose of the 1980s: Three New Names" by Aleksei Zverev. ISBN 0878055843.

Hardback. 279pp Moscow 1965 *Novel. Very good copy in very good dust jacket.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 281 pages. The dust jacket has a bit of wear, with light foxing, scuffs and several small tears along the edges. The page edges lightly tanned. Books listed here are not stored at the shop. Please contact us if you want to pick up a book from Newtown.