โ Scribed by Vladimir Nabokov
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
The author's observations on the great nineteenth-century Russian writers--Chekhov, Dostoevsky, Gogol, Gorky, Tolstoy, and Turgenev. "This volume... never once fails to instruct and stimulate. This is a great Russian talking of great Russians" (Anthony Burgess). Edited and with an Introduction by Fredson Bowers; illustrations.
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