August 1914 - Softcover

Alexander Solzhenitsyn

Softcover

ISBN 10: 014003739X ISBN 13: 9780140037395

Verlag: Penguin, 1974

Inhaltsangabe

RO60067240. AUGUST 1914. 1974. In-12. Broché. Etat d'usage, Couv. légèrement passée, Dos satisfaisant, Mouillures. 645 pages. Illustré de cartes en noir et blanc hors texte en fin d'ouvrage.. . . . Classification Dewey : 420-Langue anglaise. Anglo-saxon

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Críticas

"A grand meditation on history, a masterly re-creation of people and faces caught up in the sweep of time, symbolized by a rolling fiery red wheel. The work is breathtaking in scope . . . Much credit for its power must go to Mr. Willetts's superb translation."--Gary Kern, "The New York Times" "It is now clear that [Solzhenitsyn] towers over all his contemporaries, European, American, and Latin American . . . The greatness of Russia is in this novel as it has not been in any work of fiction since the generation of Dostoevski and Tolstoy."--Lionel Abel, "The Wall Street Journal"

Reseña del editor

In his monumental narrative of the outbreak of the First World War and the ill-fated Russian offensive into East Prussia, Solzhenitsyn has written what Nina Krushcheva, in "The Nation," calls "a dramatically new interpretation of Russian history." The assassination of tsarist prime minister Pyotr Stolypin, a crucial event in the years leading up to the Revolution of 1917, is reconstructed from the alienating viewpoints of historical witnesses. The sole voice of reason among the advisers to Tsar Nikolai II, Stolypin died at the hands of the anarchist Mordko Bogrov, and with him perished Russia's last hope for reform. Translated by H.T. Willetts."August 1914" is the first volume of Solzhenitsyn's epic, "The Red Wheel; "the second is "November 1916." Each of the subsequent volumes will concentrate on another critical moment or "knot," in the history of the Revolution. Translated by H.T. Willetts.

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• Verlag: Penguin
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1974
• ISBN 10: 014003739X
• ISBN 13: 9780140037395
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 656