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Koestler: The Literary and Political Odyssey of a Twentieth-Century Skeptic
by Scammell, Michael
- Used
- Very Good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 0394576306
- ISBN 13
- 9780394576305
- Seller
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melbourne, Victoria, Australia
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About This Item
Random House, New York, 2009. First Edition. Hardcover (1/4 Boards 3/4 Boards). Very Good/Very Good. Illustrator: Photographic. Prologue by author, Koestler family tree, acknowledgements, select bibliography notes on sources and index. Between pages 296 and 297 there are 16 pages of black and white photography. 1/4 black coloured backstrip with gilt coloured titles. 3/4 black coloured boards. Photographic dustwrapper, showing a young Arthur Koestler, with white and black coloured titles to the front panel and white coloured titles to the backstrip. Black and white photograph of author to the rear fold over panel. "Drawing on over 100 interviews and a wealth of new sources (private diaries, unpublished letters, archives of the CIA, MI5, the French Surete, the German and Soviet Communist parties), the author gives a nuanced and unsentimental account of Koestler's turbulent public and private life: his drug use, manic-depression, the frenetic womanising that led to an accusation of rape, and the shocking suicide pact with his third wife in 1983." Dust jacket blurb. A little softening of the backstrip edges and rubbing of the book corners. Very light age toning of the text block edges and there is a red remainder dot to the lower text edge. Some light brown marks to the lower text edge. Some creasing of the dustwrapper edges with rubbing of the panels. Full Number Line. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. [11], XII - XXI, [6], 4 - 689, [5] pages,. Please refer to accompanying picture (s). Illustrator: Photographic. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: 1-2 kilos. Category: Biography & Autobiography; ISBN: 0394576306. ISBN/EAN: 9780394576305. Inventory No: 0130442. . 9780394576305
Synopsis
Michael Scammell is the author of Solzhenitsyn, a Biography, which won the Los Angeles Times and English PEN’s prizes for best biography after its publication. He is the editor of The Solzhenitsyn Files , Unofficial Art from the Soviet Union , and Russia’ s Other Writers, and has translated Nabokov, Dostoyevsky, Tolstoy, and other Russian authors into English. His reviews and articles have appeared in The New York Review of Books, The New York Times, The Los Angeles Times, The New Republic, Harpers, and elsewhere. He teaches creative writing and translation in the School of the Arts at Columbia University in New York. Michael Scammell has been shortlisted for the LA Times biography prize.
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- Bookseller
- Syber's Books ABN 40533682787
(AU)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 0130442
- Title
- Koestler: The Literary and Political Odyssey of a Twentieth-Century Skeptic
- Author
- Scammell, Michael
- Illustrator
- Photographic
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover (1/4 Boards 3/4 Boards)
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0394576306
- ISBN 13
- 9780394576305
- Publisher
- Random House
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 2009
- Keywords
- BZDB2 Arthur Koestler, biography, 20th-century intellectual, novelist, Zionist, political activist, philosopher Biography & Autobiography; Photographic Unbranded ISBN: 0394576306 EAN: 9780394576305 Scammell, Michael Koestler: The Literary and Politi
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About Syber's Books ABN 40533682787
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