The New Commandment

Romanof, Panteleimon (translated by Valentine Snow)

Verlag: Charles Scribner's Sons, New York, 1933

(price-clipped) [moderate shelfwear, slight exposure of boards at bottom corners, light soiling to top of text block; jacket has a number of tiny tears and edge-nicks, small ink stain near bottom corner of rear panel]. The author "is writing about love today, as it is under the Soviet. And here, as in 'Three Pairs of Silk Stockings,' the reader secures, in addition to a love story perfectly told, a clearer and more accurate insight into actual life in Soviet Russia than can be obtained in any other way." The New York Times gave the book a lengthy review, calling it "a brilliant psychological novel [which] does not present a wholly Communist attitude to an eternal problem" -- quite probably the reason why (also per the Times) the author's books were "more generally and sympathetically read by the Western worn than by Russia." That never changed much, and he was so out of favor by the time of his death in 1938 that the Writers' Union didn't even bother to publish an obituary; a 2007 study of Soviet-era satire reported that his books had long since been taken out of circulation and that he'd essentially been obliterated from the country's literary history. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 21880

Bibliografische Details

Titel: The New Commandment
Verlag: Charles Scribner's Sons, New York
Erscheinungsdatum: 1933
Einband: Hardcover
Zustand: Very Good
Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good dj
Auflage: First American Edition.