Henry Holt and Company, 1989. Soft cover. Good. 397 pages, with index and glossary of names. Translated from Czech by Paul Wilson, with his introduction and preface; also an author's preface for this first English paperback edition. Letters by Czech playwright and human rights activist Vaclav Havel, later President of the Czech Republic, to his wife - the only writing allowed him during four years of imprisonment in Czechoslovakia. Trade paperback, light shelf wear, rubbing along spine, soil and faint foxing to edges. From the library of Profs. Ann and Warner Berthoff, with one page of her and two pages of his page-reference notes on end papers, underscoring and marginalia (mostly his, in a small, neat hand) throughout; recommendation is to choose a different copy, if you suspect these notes may be distracting or of no interest. A bonus is two laid-in clippings from the Times Literary Supplement: a 1987 interview of Havel on the tenth anniversary of the Charter 77 human rights movement, and a 1989 book review, by Steven Lukes, of this and another book.

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Bookseller: Berthoff Books (US)
Bookseller's Inventory #: WBB-903
Title: Letters to Olga: June 1979-September 1982
Author: Vaclav Havel
Format/Binding: Soft cover
Book Condition: Used - Good
Quantity Available: 1
Binding: Paperback
ISBN 10: 0805009736
ISBN 13: 9780805009736
Publisher: Henry Holt and Company
Place of Publication: New York
Date Published: 1989
Keywords: CHARTER 1977, EAST EUROPEAN DISSIDENTS, PRISON WRITINGS, HUMAN RIGHTS
Bookseller catalogs: Politics; Philosophy; East European literature;

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Berthoff Books sells books previously owned by the late Warner B. Berthoff, Professor of English and American Literature, emeritus, at Harvard University, and members of his family. Some books contain marginalia by Warner Berthoff, the late Prof. Ann E. Berthoff (U. Mass-Boston, English composition and rhetoric), or others, which we aim to describe accurately. Our inventory features English and American fiction and poetry, 20th-century literary criticism, world literature, history, and philosophy. Other categories are history and politics of Australia, Asia, South Africa and the Middle East; intelligence agencies and gnostic beliefs; Russian literature and criticism; and Russian and Soviet history.

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