THE LAND OF RIDDLES. Russia of To-Day
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Octavo, brown cloth covers with gilt titles, top edge gilt. v [2] 331 pages. Former owner bookplate on front paste-down endpaper. First person account of travels from Germany, through Poland (at t...
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Octavo, brown cloth covers with gilt titles, top edge gilt. v [2] 331 pages. Former owner bookplate on front paste-down endpaper. First person account of travels from Germany, through Poland (at that time under Russian control) and into Russia proper.Ganz writes:"For the Pole, Germanization is an ill-fitting garment that only binds; Russianization is a thorn in the flesh, producing pus and throwing the entire system into a fever." One of the stops Ganz made was to visit Leo Tolstoi. Ganz was a German-Jewish political and literary writer and journalist for the German newspaper "Frankfurter Zeiting" and Swiss "Neue Zurcher Zeitung." 092508A
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Publisher: Harper & Brothers
Year: 1904
Type: Used
Binding: Hardcover
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