Bottome, Phyllis. The Goal. Faber and Faber.
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Textual Features | Bernice Rubens | A huge cast of peripheral characters enables the book to move occasionally outside Russia: Berlin before the German-Soviet non-aggression pact of 1939 is vividly described. Later, cold-war America becomes a shadowy presence when the most... |
Textual Features | Christina Stead | The protagonist couple in this novel are both US Communists in the 1940s. Stephen Howard is an Ivy-League-educated child of privilege; his wife, Emily Wilkes, who says she comes from Hix-on-the-Stix, is an exuberant... |
Textual Features | Rose Allatini | The protagonist here, Franz Ferdinand Ebermann of the London firm of Fawcett and Ebermann, is another Jew with a far-flung family. His Viennese cousins and their ilk, professors' daughters or bank managers' widows or proprietors... |
Textual Features | Ursula K. Le Guin | The essays here examine many of her own writing practices and her feelings and opinions about her art. As well as introductions to individual novels the book collects pieces with such intriguing titles as Why... |
Textual Features | Gillian Slovo | When Irina returns as a bit-part heroine from facing death in the Arctic, Boris finds her a job as housekeeper to his friend Anton Antonovich, a university intellectual, who has taken in a destitute orphan... |
Residence | Phyllis Bottome | |
Reception | Anna Akhmatova | However, her poetry was publicly denounced in July this year, and in August the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union
imposed a ban on the journals Zvezda (The Star) and Leningrad... |
Publishing | Rose Tremain | RT
's second book, an illustrated life of Josef Stalin
, appeared in 1975 in the same series. |
politics | Emmuska, Baroness Orczy | Belgian refugees descending on her Kentish village early in the First World War reminded EBO
of a plague of locusts, and though she says that everyone loved and pitied them, they were also delighted to... |
politics | Simone de Beauvoir | SB
's political activities included steady opposition to France's colonial war in Algeria, and lifelong support for socialism and feminism. Elaine Showalter
has written that SB
's feminist credentials stem from her writing, and... |
politics | Christina Stead | Back in London in 1953 after Stalin
's death, CS
began to understand what a stigma it was at this date to be a Communist. She nevertheless remained faithful to her partner's hard-line politics even... |
politics | Anna Akhmatova | The late 1920s and middle 30s were marked by massive repressions and imprisonments undertaken by the Communist
regime now headed by Joseph Stalin
. Battered by the arrests of Osip Mandelstam
, a fellow writer... |
politics | Rosita Forbes | In 1934 she had a series of meetings with Stalin
at Moscow. Charques, Richard Denis. “Admirer with a Notebook”. Times Literary Supplement, No. 1992, p. 166. 166 |
politics | Rosita Forbes | RF
's patriotism has been called in question, however, not so much because she spent much of the war in North America and the Caribbean, but because early in the war she chose to... |
politics | Beatrice Webb | The trip (with another taken by Sidney in 1934) reversed the Webbs' previous opinions of Soviet communism, which they had hitherto (before rising mass unemployment and increasing de-regulation destroyed their faith in the potential improvement... |
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