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Hope Abandoned by Nadezhda Mandelstam
RRP: £30.00Booksplease Price: £22.98Hope Against Hope recounted the last four years in the life of the great Russian poet, Osip Mandelstam, and gave a hair-raising account of Stalin's terror. Hope Abandoned complements that earlier... -
Hope Against Hope by Nadezhda Mandelstam
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £13.04'Suddently, at about one o'clock in the morning, there was a sharp, unbearably explicit knock on the door. 'They've come for Osip', I said'.In 1933 the poet Osip Mandelstam- friend to Boris Pasternak... -
Hope Against Hope by Nadezhda Mandelstam 9781841594125
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £14.37A harrowing yet uplifting account of Stalin's persecution of the Russian intelligentsia in the 1930s, and of one man - Osip Mandelstam (1891-1938), whose poetry, in spite of the unfolding tragedy of... -
Seamus Heaney and East European Poetry in Translation: Poetics of Exile by Carmen Bugan
Booksplease Price: £90.98This book looks at how the poetry of Seamus Heaney, born of the Troubles in Northern Ireland, has encountered the 'historically-tested imaginations' of Czeslaw Milosz, Joseph Brodsky, Osip... -
Seamus Heaney and East European Poetry in Translation: Poetics of Exile by Carmen Bugan 9780367601560
RRP: £45.99Booksplease Price: £43.08This book looks at how the poetry of Seamus Heaney, born of the Troubles in Northern Ireland, has encountered the 'historically-tested imaginations' of Czeslaw Milosz, Joseph Brodsky, Osip... -
A Poetics of Church: Reading and Writing Sacred Spaces of Poetic Dwelling by Jennifer Reek
RRP: £45.99Booksplease Price: £43.08This innovative book aims to create a 'poetics of Church' and a 'religious imaginary' as alternatives to more institutional and conventional ways of thinking and of being 'Church'. Structured as a... -
Nightingale Fever: Russian Poets in Revolution Ronald Hingley 9780367753344
Booksplease Price: £32.54This book, first published in 1981, examines the dramatic and tragic stories of four of the greatest Russian poets of the twentieth century, their struggle to survive the Stalin years, and their... -
Hannah Arendt: Radical Conservative Irving Horowitz 9781138510517
RRP: £48.99Booksplease Price: £45.63Hannah Arendt: Radical Conservative paints a broad picture of the personal traits and professional achievements in the work of an extremely complex iconographic figure in twentieth-century... -
Images of Dictatorship: Stalin in Literature by Rosalind J. Marsh
Booksplease Price: £86.58Originally published in 1989, this book presented the first study of the image of Stalin in literature. Analysing the literary presentaiton of historical character and the treatment of 20th Century... -
No Joke: Making Jewish Humor by Ruth R. Wisse 9780691149462
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £17.05Humor is the most celebrated of all Jewish responses to modernity. In this book, Ruth Wisse evokes and applauds the genius of spontaneous Jewish joking--as well as the brilliance of comic masterworks... -
In the Shadow of Revolution: Life Stories of Russian Women from 1917 to the Second World War by Sheila Fitzpatrick 9780691019499
RRP: £52.00Booksplease Price: £42.26Asked shortly after the revolution about how she viewed the new government, Tatiana Varsher replied, "With the wide-open eyes of a historian." Her countrywoman, Zinaida Zhemchuzhnaia, expressed a... -
The Poetic World of Boris Pasternak by Olga Raevsky- Hughes
RRP: £32.00Booksplease Price: £29.02The dramatic political struggle of Boris Pasternak and the continued success of his novel. Dr. Zhivago, have often taken center stage in discussions of this writer. Olga Raevsky Hughes chooses... -
Osip Mandelstam's Stone by Osip Mandelstam 9780691615400
RRP: £45.00Booksplease Price: £36.63CONTENTS Acknowledgments. A Note on the Text. List of Abbreviations. Introduction. Mandelstam: The Poet as Builder. STONE. Notes.Originally published in 1981.The Princeton Legacy Library uses the... -
The Moscow & Voronezh Notebooks: Poems 1930-1937 Osip Mandelstam 9781852246310
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.26Osip Mandelstam was one of the great Russian poets of the 20th century, with a prophetic understanding of its suffering, which he transformed into luminous poetry. Childish and wise, joyous and... -
The Voronezh Workbooks by Osip Mandelstam 9781848618350
RRP: £14.95Booksplease Price: £12.50Osip Mandelstam spent three years in internal exile in the city of Voronezh, in south-western Russia, after someone in his circle of acquaintances had informed the Soviet authorities of his "Stalin... -
The Love and Wars of Lina Prokofiev: The Story of Lina and Serge Prokofiev by Simon Morrison 9780099581789
RRP: £15.99Booksplease Price: £12.47As heard on Radio 4 Book of the WeekLina Prokofiev was alone in her Moscow apartment one night when the telephone rang. The caller insisted that she come downstairs to collect a parcel, but when she... -
Stone by Osip Mandelstam 9781846553370
RRP: £15.99Booksplease Price: £12.47'There is a salubrious elan about much of the book, and the fact that it is a book, not just a selection the significant poems, amplifies our sense of what Stone really means to its contemporary... -
The Poets' Wives David Park 9781408846360
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £6.31From award-winning writer David Park, an absorbing account of the lives of the women most important to three poets: William Blake, Osip Mandlestam and an imagined contemporary Irish poet 'An... -
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RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £1.97From award-winning writer David Park, an absorbing account of the lives of the women most important to three poets: William Blake, Osip Mandlestam and an imagined contemporary Irish poet 'An... -
Igifu by Scholastique Mukasonga
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £10.72Scholastique Mukasonga's autobiographical stories rend a glorious Rwanda from the obliterating force of recent history, conjuring the noble cows of her home or the dew-swollen grass they graze on. In...