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

Wilson, Edmund

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0753818000 ISBN 13 : 9780753818008

Editeur : Phoenix (an Imprint of The Orion Publishing Group Ltd ), 2004

Synopsis

From the ideas of the early nineteenth-century socialists to the thoughts of Marx and Engels, Lenin and Trotsky, Edmund Wilson traces the development of the political and intellectual movements that culminated in the Russian Revolution. TO THE FINLAND STATION is a work of history on a grand scale, at once sweeping and detailed, closely reasoned and passionately argued, that succeeds in painting an unforgettable picture - alive with conspirators and philosophers, utopians and nihilists - of the making of the modern world. 'The first thing that strikes us about To the Finland Station is the vastness of its scope'It is easily, equally at home in the philosopher's study, in the prisoner's cell, on the steppes, in the streets, melancholy in great country houses, choking in fetid industrial slums'It can remind us that our history is alive and open and rich with excitement and promise' New York Times Book Review

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

American critic and author, b. 1895 in Red Bank, N.J. grad. Princeton, 1916. He is considered one of the most important American literary and social critics of the 20th cent. From 1920 to 1921 he was managing editor of Vanity Fair ,and he was later on the staffs of the New Republic(1926-31) and the New Yorker(1944-48). He died in 1972

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Phoenix (an Imprint of The Orion Publishing Group Ltd )
• Date d'édition: 2004
• ISBN 10: 0753818000
• ISBN 13: 9780753818008
• Reliure: Broché
• Langue: anglais
• Nombre de pages: 544
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible