Ideals and Realities in Russian Literature by Peter Kropotkin

In this work, Peter Kropotkin is propounding the thesis that, in Russia, literature occupies a unique position because it is the only way of reflecting the real currents of intellectual development and of underground political opinion. The consequence, he feels, has been that the best minds of the country have chosen the poem, the novel, the satire, or literary criticism as the medium for expressing their aspirations, their conceptions of national life, and their ideals. Concentrating on content rather than on form, on intention rather than achievement, Russian Literature provides a fair and comprehensive introduction to Russian writing up to the end of the nineteenth century. Almost every poet and prose-writer of any significance is discussed – Pushkin, Lermontoff, Gogol, Turgueneff, Tolstoy, Dostoyevsky – and every class of literature is included; criticism as well as novels, and political writings as well as poetry.

Book is manually bound in small series of 30 in each print-run.

I do design, layout of the book, print them at digital printer and then do the whole binding process, from cutting it into right format, putting it all together and trimming it to final size. Most of the work is manual, with help of 120 years old manual paper-cutter and paper creasing machine.

Binding: paperback
Size: 210 x 150 mm
Number of pages: 318