The Italics Are Mine
by Berberova, N
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- ISBN 10
- 0679412379
- ISBN 13
- 9780679412373
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About This Item
New York: Alfred A Knopf, Inc, 1992. Binding: Hardcover, Dust Jacket
600 pp.
The Italics are Mine is the autobiography of Nina Berberova. It was first published in the 1960s. It was re-issued in 1992 following the success of her novellas and short story collections, written in the 1930s.
Berberova was born in Saint Petersburg in 1901. She left Russia in 1922. She and her partner, the poet Vladislav Khodasevich spent time in Czechoslovakia and Berlin before settling in Paris. She left Khodasevich in the mid-1930s. "He fears the world. I do not. He fears the future. I rush towards it." She was part of a circle of literary Russian exiles, and the book has a number of portraits of them, including Boris Pasternak, Maxim Gorky, Marina Tsvetaeva and Andrey Bely.
Has minor defects on dust jacket.
600 pp.
The Italics are Mine is the autobiography of Nina Berberova. It was first published in the 1960s. It was re-issued in 1992 following the success of her novellas and short story collections, written in the 1930s.
Berberova was born in Saint Petersburg in 1901. She left Russia in 1922. She and her partner, the poet Vladislav Khodasevich spent time in Czechoslovakia and Berlin before settling in Paris. She left Khodasevich in the mid-1930s. "He fears the world. I do not. He fears the future. I rush towards it." She was part of a circle of literary Russian exiles, and the book has a number of portraits of them, including Boris Pasternak, Maxim Gorky, Marina Tsvetaeva and Andrey Bely.
Has minor defects on dust jacket.
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- Bookseller
- Globus Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 12019
- Title
- The Italics Are Mine
- Author
- Berberova, N
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Unknown
- ISBN 10
- 0679412379
- ISBN 13
- 9780679412373
- Publisher
- Alfred A Knopf, Inc
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1992
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