To the Finland Station: A Study in the Writing and Acting of History - Couverture souple

Wilson, Edmund

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0374533458 ISBN 13 : 9780374533458

Editeur : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2012

Synopsis

One of the great works of modern historical writing, the classic account of the ideas, people, and politics that led to the Bolshevik Revolution

Edmund Wilson's To the Finland Station is intellectual history on a grand scale, full of romance, idealism, intrigue, and conspiracy, that traces the revolutionary ideas that shaped the modern world from the French Revolution up through Lenin's arrival at Finland Station in St. Petersburg in 1917. Fueled by Wilson's own passionate engagement with the ideas and politics at play, it is a lively and vivid, sweeping account of a singular idea--that it is possible to construct a society based on justice, equality, and freedom--gaining the power to change history.

Vico, Michelet, Bakunin, and especially Marx--along with scores of other anarchists, socialists, nihilists, utopians, and more--all come to life in these pages. And in Wilson's telling, their stories and their ideas remain as alive, as provocative, as relevant now as they were in their own time.

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

Edmund Wilson (1895-1972) was a novelist, memoirist, playwright, journalist, poet, and editor but it is as a literary critic that he is most highly regarded. His more than twenty books include Axel's Castle, Patriotic Gore, To the Finland Station, and Memoirs of Hecate County.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
• Date d'édition: 2012
• ISBN 10: 0374533458
• ISBN 13: 9780374533458
• Reliure: Broché
• Langue: anglais
• Nombre de pages: 608
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible