The White Guard
Published by Collins and Harvill Press, London, 1971
- First Edition
- Hardcover
- Used
Seller: The Print Room, Cockernhoe nr Luton, United KingdomThe Print Room
AbeBooks seller since November 2, 2010
Condition: Used - Very good
£ 80.00
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First UK edition, first impression. Some edge wear and chipping to top and bottom of jacket and spine, two long closed tears to top of largely white jacket, corners slightly rubbed and bruised with tiny loss. Price clipped, some faint spotting to page fore edges, internally clean tight and square, overall a vg copy for its age. 320pp. Bulgakov's classic tale of love and war in Russia in the best translation by Michael Glenny. He began writing prose with 'The White Guard' in 1924 (previously he had written for the theatre), partly published in 1925, first full edition 1927-1929 in Paris. In Kiev during the Russian Civil War the Turbin household is sanctuary to a ragtag, close knit crowd of friends and family. As the brothers prepare to fight for the White Guard, friends charge in from the riotous streets amidst an atmosphere of heady chaos, quaffing vodka, keeling over, taking baths, playing guitar, falling in love. But the new regime is poised and in its brutal triumph lies destruction for the Turbins and their world. The novel is powered by that distinctively Russian mix of wild hilarity and desperate heartache. There are deeply wrenching moments, terrible family losses and brilliantly staged war scenes that encapsulate the horror of Russia’s turbulent, blood drenched history. The civil war was a very cruel one, on both sides. The Whites killed 100,000 Jews in organised pogroms. White cossacks dragged Red prisoners over the ground with lassos. The Reds had little to learn from them, they massacred complete villages. Priests were speared on poles, and on the bodies of White officers were tied cages with rats, the cages were then heated so that the rats gnawed their way through the bodies. The real victims were, of course, the civilians. Red and White terror cost millions of lives. Famine and disease spread. And, as if the civilians had not enough to fear from the White and the Red armies, they had to be on alert for each other too, plunderings, killings, robberies and even cannibalism were reported. Between 1918 and 1923 the civil war cost about 15 million Russian lives.This story throws light on the smallest part of an epic, horrifying drama involving all that life holds, hope, love, fear and death. Bulgakov's (1891-1940), most famous novel and a twentieth century comic masterpiece is 'The Master and Margarita' on the havoc caused by the Devil's visit to Moscow. Photos on request.…
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Bibliographic details
- Title
- The White Guard
- Author
- Bulgakov, Mikhail (Afanasyevich). Translated from the Russian by Michael Glenny, the an Epilogue by Viktor Nekrasov
- Publisher
- Collins and Harvill Press, London
- Publication year
- 1971
- Condition
- Very Good
- Dust jacket
- Fair
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Illustrator
- Jacket design by Kenneth Farnhill
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Printing
- 1st Printing
- Dimensions
- 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall
The Print Room
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