Hope Against Hope + Hope Abandoned (Two-Volume Set)
Condition: SECONDHAND
This is a secondhand book. The jacket image is a photograph of the exact copy we have in stock. This image shows the condition of this book. Further condition remarks are below.
Edition: Vol I (repr.); Vol II (1st ed.,)
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damage
Pages: Good
Markings: No markings
Condition remarks: Vol II - slight bruising to board edges. Otherwise, both vols. in good condition, clean texts.
"Hope Against Hope" and "Hope Abandoned" together form one of the twentieth century's towering works of memoir and witness, in which Nadezhda Mandelstam chronicles her life with the great Russian poet Osip Mandelstam under Stalin's terror, recounting in the first volume his arrests in 1934 and 1938 and his death in a Siberian transit camp, while the second volume reaches back to their first meeting in 1919 and extends forward through her own decades of clandestine survival, preserving his manuscripts from memory, and offers searingly candid portraits of contemporaries including Anna Akhmatova, Boris Pasternak, and Nikolai Bukharin, the whole constituting both an indictment of Soviet totalitarianism and a profound testament to the power of poetry and human dignity to endure catastrophe.
Author: Nadezhda Mandelstam
Format: Hardback
Published: 1973, Collins & Harvil Press London
Genre: Biography
Edition: Vol I (repr.); Vol II (1st ed.,)
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damage
Pages: Good
Markings: No markings
Condition remarks: Vol II - slight bruising to board edges. Otherwise, both vols. in good condition, clean texts.
"Hope Against Hope" and "Hope Abandoned" together form one of the twentieth century's towering works of memoir and witness, in which Nadezhda Mandelstam chronicles her life with the great Russian poet Osip Mandelstam under Stalin's terror, recounting in the first volume his arrests in 1934 and 1938 and his death in a Siberian transit camp, while the second volume reaches back to their first meeting in 1919 and extends forward through her own decades of clandestine survival, preserving his manuscripts from memory, and offers searingly candid portraits of contemporaries including Anna Akhmatova, Boris Pasternak, and Nikolai Bukharin, the whole constituting both an indictment of Soviet totalitarianism and a profound testament to the power of poetry and human dignity to endure catastrophe.