Description: Translated anthology of 'London Letters' written by Russian foreign correspondents which makes available for the first time in English the Russian perspective on early twentieth-century London life.
Brief description: Anna Vaninskaya is Senior Lecturer in English Literature at the University of Edinburgh. She is the author of William Morris and the Idea of Community: Romance, History and Propaganda, 1880-1914 (2010), Fantasies of Time and Death: Dunsany, Eddison, Tolkien (2020) and over forty articles and book chapters on topics ranging from Anglo-Russian cultural relations to socialist, speculative and fantasy literature, to the history of immigration, education, popular reading and historical writing.
Review Quotes: The selections are excellent and the translations so smooth that one rarely remembers that these are indeed translations. And the editor's footnotes fully justify their positioning at the foot of the relevant page, rather than corralled as endnotes. Even the production of the book itself (by Boydell and Brewer for the London Record Society) is first class. Full marks to all concerned.-- "EAST-WEST REVIEW"