Herzen Reader

Informationen zum Autor ALEXANDER HERZEN (1812-1870), a memoirist, essayist, novelist, publisher, and editor, was one of the most influential figures in Russia's political, social, and economic debates from the 1840s until his death. Among his most important works are a novel, Who Is to Blame? (1846); a book of essays, From the Other Shore (1850); and his autobiography, My Past and Thoughts (1861). KATHLEEN PARTHÉ is a professor of Russian and director of the Russian Studies Program at the University of Rochester. She is the author of Russian Village Prose: The Radiant Past (Northwestern, 1992) and Russia's Dangerous Texts: Politics Between the Lines (2004). ROBERT HARRIS is a lecturer in the Faculty of Medieval and Modern Languages at New College, University of Oxford. Klappentext Presents in English for the first time one hundred essays and editorials by the radical Russian thinker Alexander Herzen (1812-1870). Herzen wrote most of these pieces for The Bell! a revolutionary newspaper he launched with the poet Nikolai Ogaryov in London in 1857. Zusammenfassung Presents in English for the first time one hundred essays and editorials by the radical Russian thinker Alexander Herzen (1812–1870). Herzen wrote most of these pieces for The Bell, a revolutionary newspaper he launched with the poet Nikolai Ogaryov in London in 1857.

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• Authors: Aleksandr Herzen, Alexander Herzen, Alexander/ Parthe Herzen
• Assisted by: Kathleen Parthe (Editor), Kathleen F. (Professor of Russian Parthe (Editor), Kathleen Parthé (Editor), Kathleen Parthe (Translation), Kathleen F. (Professor of Russian Parthe (Translation), Kathleen Parthé (Translation)
• Publisher: Northwestern University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.12.2012
• EAN: 9780810128477
• ISBN: 978-0-8101-2847-7
• No. of pages: 416
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Essays, feuilletons, literary criticism, interviews; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies