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Product Description: This book (comprising four lectures presented at Trinity College, Cambridge in 1985) is concerned with the function and status of poetry in the twentieth century, and is particularly concerned to contrast attitudes in Britain and America with those in the USSR and Eastern Europe...read more
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9780521069342 | 1 edition (Cambridge Univ Pr, July 31, 2008), cover price $33.00 | About this edition: This book (comprising four lectures presented at Trinity College, Cambridge in 1985) is concerned with the function and status of poetry in the twentieth century, and is particularly concerned to contrast attitudes in Britain and America with those in the USSR and Eastern Europe.

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Product Description: In Russia's struggle with Napoleon, Tolstoy saw a tragedy that involved all mankind. Greater than a historical chronicle, War and Peace is an affirmation of life itself, `a complete picture', as a contemporary reviewer put it, `of everything in which people find their happiness and greatness, their grief and humiliation'...read more
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9780199536054 | Oxford Univ Pr, June 15, 2008, cover price $12.95 | About this edition: In Russia's struggle with Napoleon, Tolstoy saw a tragedy that involved all mankind.

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Product Description: This book (comprising four lectures presented at Trinity College, Cambridge in 1985) is concerned with the function and status of poetry in the twentieth century, and is particularly concerned to contrast attitudes in Britain and America with those in the USSR and Eastern Europe...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)
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9780521309448 | Cambridge Univ Pr, May 1, 1986, cover price $66.00 | About this edition: This book (comprising four lectures presented at Trinity College, Cambridge in 1985) is concerned with the function and status of poetry in the twentieth century, and is particularly concerned to contrast attitudes in Britain and America with those in the USSR and Eastern Europe.

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Briefly describes the life of the Russian novelist, discusses his views on education, religion, and ethics, and assesses his influence on modern literature
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9780192875457 | Oxford Univ Pr, February 1, 1983, cover price $14.95 | About this edition: Briefly describes the life of the Russian novelist, discusses his views on education, religion, and ethics, and assesses his influence on modern literature

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9780192875440 | Reprint edition (Oxford Univ Pr, January 1, 1984), cover price $6.95 | About this edition: Briefly describes the life of the Russian novelist, discusses his views on education, religion, and ethics, and assesses his influence on modern literature

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Product Description: An attempt to interpret and appraise the work of Boris Pasternak as lyrical and narrative poet, writer of prose fiction, and verse translator (notably from Shakespeare). Pasternak belonged to an unusually gifted generation of Russian poets who began writing in the years that preceded the First World War and the Russian revolution of 1917...read more
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9780521212885 | Cambridge Univ Pr, March 1, 1977, cover price $45.00 | About this edition: An attempt to interpret and appraise the work of Boris Pasternak as lyrical and narrative poet, writer of prose fiction, and verse translator (notably from Shakespeare).

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9780521286770 | Cambridge Univ Pr, January 1, 1982, cover price $44.00 | About this edition: An attempt to interpret and appraise the work of Boris Pasternak as lyrical and narrative poet, writer of prose fiction, and verse translator (notably from Shakespeare).

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