The Good of This Place: Values and Challenges in College EducationA perceptive literary critic, a world-famous writer of witty and playful verses for children, a leading authority on children's linguistic creativity and a highly skilled translator, Kornei Chukovsky was a complete man of letters. As benefactor to many writers including Alexander Solzhenitsyn and Joseph Brodsky, he stood for several decades at the centre of the Russian literary milieu. It is no exaggeration to claim that Chukovsky knew everyone involved in shaping the course of twentieth-century Russian literature. His voluminous diary, here translated into English for the first time, begins in prerevolutionary Russia and spans nearly the entire Soviet era. It is the candid commentary of a brilliant observer who documents fifty years of Soviet literary activity and the personal predicament of the writer under a totalitarian regime. |
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The Good of This Place: Values and Challenges in College Education Richard H. Brodhead Limited preview - 2004 |
The Good of this Place - Values and Challenges in College Education Richard H. Brodhead No preview available - 2010 |
The Good of this Place: Values and Challenges in College Education Richard H. Brodhead No preview available - 2004 |
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