Sochineniia, Tom 1, 2, 3

Moskva: Gosudarstvennoe Izdatelistvo Khudozhestvennoy Literaturi, 1959. v. 1: 359 pp., v. 2: 463 pp. v. 3: 321. In Russian. Nikolai Alekseevich Nekrasov (1821-1878): editor and publisher of A Physiology of Petersburg, and A Petersburg Miscellany, 1845. Editor of The Contemporary, a journal founded by Pushkin in 1836, where he published Dostoevsky, Tolstoy, Turgenev and others. THIS EDITION - The works of N. A. Nekrasov in three volumes - contains verse (stikhotvoreniia) and poems. This Publication is based on The Complete Works and Letters of N. A. Nekrasov, Goslitizdat, 1948-1953, with the additional collation text of the lifetime publications that made it possible, in a number of cases, to refine texts and dating of separate works. The works are printed in chronological order. First Volume - Verse (stikhotvoreniia) and poems 1845-1863. SECOND VOLUME - Verse (stikhotvoreniia) and poems 1864-1877. Humorous poems and poems not included by N. A. Nekrasov into 'The Meetings of His Compositions' THE THIRD VOLUME - Poem 'For whom is life in Russia good.' His speech's every syllable / Engenders for him cruel foes, / And all men, whether smart or dull, / Are quick to vilify him. / / They curse at him from every side, / And only when they see his corpse / They'll understand how much he did, / And that in hate, he was yet full of love!--from 'On the Day of Gogol's Death' as translated by (?) on the site 'From the Ends to the Beginning: A Bilingual Anthology of Russian Verse.' . Cloth. Very Good/Fair. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.