Ten Days That Shook The World

[RADICAL & PROLETARIAN LITERATURE] REED, John (text); SIMPSON, John (preface); TAYLOR, A.J.P. (introduction)

Edité par The Folio Society, London, 2006

First Printing. Octavo (24.25cm); pictorial cloth boards; map endpapers; publisher's black paper-covered slipcase; xviii,369,[3]pp; illus. Tiny creases to a few lower page corners, else Fine in a Fine slipcase. Reed's classic eyewitness account of the first ten days of the Bolshevik-led October Revolution in 1917. Reed joined the staff of the prominent Socialist magazine The Masses in 1913, the same year his first book was published, and married his wife, journalist Louise Bryant, in 1916. "On the Masses, Reed's modus operandi, as a reporter, was to get arrested, which he regularly did, while looking for trouble. Soon, weary of provoking the US authorities, he broadened his horizons to take in the ferment in the old world as well as the new. In 1917, appalled by Woodrow Wilson's declaration of war against Germany, the newlyweds set off for Europe, and wound up in St. Petersburg at the beginning of the revolution. Reed saw at once that this was his great opportunity. Where previously he had written and published poetry and flirted with the Mexican revolution, now his prose caught fire at the prospect of a worldwide socialist catharsis" (McCrum, Robert. "The 100 best nonfiction books: No.47 - Ten Days That Shook the World by John Reed (1919). The Guardian, 19 December, 2016). Upon his return to the United States, according to his editor Max Eastman, Reed shut himself away, and wrote his account of the revolution in ten days. A landmark of 20th-century journalism. 83626. N° de réf. du vendeur 83626

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Titre : Ten Days That Shook The World
Éditeur : The Folio Society, London
Date d'édition : 2006
Edition : First Folio Society Edition.