| The Tragic Menagerie Contributor(s): Zinovieva-Annibal, Lydia (Author), Costlow, Jane (Translator) |
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ISBN: 0810114836 ISBN-13: 9780810114838 Publisher: Northwestern University Press OUR PRICE: $16.78 Product Type: Paperback Published: March 1999 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Classics - Fiction | Literary |
| Dewey: FIC |
| LCCN: 98-48373 |
| Series: European Classics |
| Physical Information: 0.63" H x 5.17" W x 7.78" (0.53 lbs) 185 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - Eastern Europe - Cultural Region - Russia - Topical - Adolescence/Coming of Age |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Though published a decade before the Bolshevik Revolution, The Tragic Menagerie possesses a sensibility that is modern in its descriptions of a childhood of passionate affections and unsettling revelations. This fictionalized autobiography follows the tomboyish Vera, who counts among her friends bears, wolves, and a wild crane, as well as local peasant girls. Sent to a German boarding school and exiled from her kingdom, Vera turns into a demonic, disobedient student, rejecting a life she finds constraining and artificial. Only when she returns to her natural world can her deeper compassionate and imaginative self emerge. |