Fine cloth copy in an equally fine dw. Particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. ; 246 pages; A compelling volume. Description: xiii, 246 p. , [6] leaves of plates : ill. ; 23 cm. Subjects: Dashwood, Emma. Governesses --Russia --Biography. Russia --History --1904-1914.
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Présentation de l'éditeur :
A Russian Upstairs, Downstairs, but one scented with the cordite and fear of revolution, and with a cast of devotedly loyal and capable British governesses. Miss Emmie is an intimate and revealing portrait of pre-Revolutionary Russian society which, contrary to received wisdoms, reveals a complex, liberal and humane society, full of enormous potential and past achievement. It is also the biography of five intrepid women who, by travelling abroad and working as governesses in Russia, achieved an intellectual dignity, a purpose and an authority which was denied them in their homeland. The extraordinary personal adventures of these women, as they negotiate the turmoil and terrifying anarchy of Revolution and Civil War, turns the book into a page-turning thriller.
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- ÉditeurJohn Murray Publishers Ltd
- Date d'édition1977
- ISBN 10 0719533325
- ISBN 13 9780719533327
- ReliureRelié
- Numéro d'édition1
- Nombre de pages264
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