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Letters from Russia / Astolphe de Custine ; edited, revised and with an introduction by Anka Muhlstein.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Custine, Astolphe, marquis de, 1790-1857.
- Series:
- New York Review Books classics
- Standardized Title:
- Russie en 1839. Selections. English
- Language:
- English
- French
- Subjects (All):
- Russia--Description and travel.
- Russia.
- Custine, Astolphe, marquis de, 1790-1857--Travel--Russia.
- Custine, Astolphe.
- Custine, Astolphe, marquis de, 1790-1857.
- Travel.
- National characteristics, Russian.
- Physical Description:
- xiii, 654 pages ; 21 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : New York Review Books, 2002.
- Summary:
- Edited by the winner of the 2000 Prix Goncourt Lyceens, Astolphe de Custines report on his visit to Russia in 1839 is a perceptive, even prophetic, reckoning with the institutions and character of a powerful, troubled country. Lauded by Louis Auchincloss as the most trenchant political text of the 19th century, the book is a passionate encounter with historical forces still at work in the world today.
- Notes:
- "The 1843 translation."
- ISBN:
- 0940322811
- OCLC:
- 48223724
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