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INTERNATIONAL PRAISE
FOR THE COMPLETE PUSHKIN IN ENGLISH
A MESSAGE FROM H.R.H. PRINCE MICHAEL OF KENT
His Royal Highness, Prince Michael of
Kent, and the Complete Works of Pushkin in English,
in his study, at Kensington Palace
Iain Sproat presents Pushkin in English
to His Royal Highness Prince Michael of Kent, at Kensington
Palace
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PRAISE FROM MRS RAISA GORBACHEV,
then President of the Russian Cultural Foundation,
in a letter to Iain Sproat
Raisa Gorbachev
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PRAISE FROM PROF. J. THOMAS SHAW,
the great American Pushkin scholar
PRAISE FROM PROF. MICHAEL IGNATIEFF,
novelist, biographer, broadcaster and newspaper columnist;
previously a Fellow of colleges at the Universities of both
Cambridge and Oxford; now at Havard University
PRAISE FROM T. J. BINYON,
fellow of Wadham College, Oxford,
author of the brilliant biography, Pushkin,
which won the prestigious Samuel Johnson Prize for non-fiction
PRAISE FROM SLAVIC AND EAST EUROPEAN JOURNAL
"This is no doubt an edition that
every major library will want to own"
Extract from the review in the American
SLAVIC AND EAST EUROPEAN JOURNAL
"The sheer task of gathering and
collating the translations must have been enormous;
it is not difficult to see why this project required
over a decade to complete. The result is not only the
most complete edition of Pushkin in English, but a set
of volumes that has benefited from the involvement of
numerous scholars and translators in its preparation.
Readers who do not know Russian now have ready access
to everything that Pushkin wrote, and they will find
a generally strong group of translators: whatever quibbles
one may have about the versions of individual lyrics,
most of which are in fact well translated, the longer
works are generally represented by either the best or
one of the best translations done to date. This is no
doubt an edition that every major library will want
to own."
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