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Koestler: The Literary and Political Odyssey of a Twentieth-Century Skeptic
by Scammell, Michael
- Used
- Condition
- Used - Acceptable
- ISBN 10
- 0394576306
- ISBN 13
- 9780394576305
- Seller
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Frederick, Maryland, United States
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About This Item
Random House. Used - Acceptable. Acceptable condition. Very Good dust jacket. A readable, intact copy that may have noticeable tears and wear to the spine. All pages of text are present, but they may include extensive notes and highlighting or be heavily stained. Includes reading copy only books.
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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Details
- Bookseller
- Wonder Book
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- K09C-01181
- Title
- Koestler: The Literary and Political Odyssey of a Twentieth-Century Skeptic
- Author
- Scammell, Michael
- Book Condition
- Used - Acceptable
- Binding
- Hardback
- ISBN 10
- 0394576306
- ISBN 13
- 9780394576305
- Publisher
- Random House
- Place of Publication
- New York
- This edition first published
- 2009-12-29
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Wonder Book
Biblio member since 2003
Frederick, Maryland
About Wonder Book
With 3 stores less than 1 hour outside the DC/Metropolitan area (1 in Gaithersburg, 1 in Frederick and 1 in Hagerstown, MD), we have the largest selection of books in the tri-state area. Wonder Book and Video has been in business since 1980 and online since 1997. We have over 1 Million books for sale on our website and another 1 Million books for sale in our 3 locations. We have a very active online inventory and as such, we can receive multiple orders for the same item. We fill those orders on a first come first serve basis, but will refund promptly any items that are out of stock. Since 1980 it has always been about the books. ALL kinds of books from 95 cent children\'s paperbacks to five figure rare and collectibles. A merging of the old and new is where we started, and it is where we are today. Our retail stores have always been places where a reader can rush in looking for a title needed for a term paper that is due the next day, or where bibliophiles can get lost \"in the stacks\" for as long as they wish. In 2002 USAToday recognized us as \"1 of 10 Great Old Bookstores\", and we have been featured in numerous other newspaper and TV stories including Washington Post and CSpan.
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- Spine
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