The Last Englishman: The Double Life of Arthur Ransome
Language: English
Published by David R Godine Pub, 2012
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- Title
- The Last Englishman: The Double Life of Arthur Ransome
- Author
- Chambers, Roland
- Publisher
- David R Godine Pub
- Publication year
- 2012
- Condition
- Fine
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- Fine
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 1567924174
- ISBN 13
- 9781567924176
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- 1st Edition
Arthur Ransome, best known for the Swallows and Amazons series, led a double, and often tortured, life. Before his fame as an author, he was notorious for very different reasons: between 1917 and 1924, he was the Russian correspondent for the Daily News and the Manchester Guardian, and his sympathy for the Bolshevik regime gave him access to its leaders, politics, and plots. He was friends with Karl Radek, the Bolshevik's Chief of Propaganda, and Felix Dzerzhinsky, founder of the secret police. In this biography, Chambers explores the tensions Ransome felt between his allegiance to England's decencies and the egalitarian Bolshevik vision, between the Lake Country he loved and always considered home and the lure of the Russian steppes to which he repeatedly returned. What emerges is not only history, but also the story of an immensely troubled man not entirely at home in either culture or country.
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