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Twain, Mark

Collected Works of Mark Twain. First Russian translation of 'A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court'.

Collected Works of Mark Twain. First Russian translation of 'A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court'.

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Twain, Mark [Collected Works of Mark Twain]. Sobranie sochinenii. 2 vol. 

Translation by A. Lindegren, V.O.T. [Trakhtenberg] and N. Fedorova.

Sankt-Peterburg, tipografiia brat'ev Panteleevykh, 1896.
8vo, vol. 1. 372 pp., vol. 2. 258 pp.

In contemporary quarter leather.
In good condition, boards worn, leather a bit scuffed, repair to spine and some pages, soiling to some pages.

First translation of the novel 'A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court' in Russian. 

This is the first 'Collected Works' of Mark Twain in Russian, spanning 11 volumes. 
This copy combines the first two volumes under one cover. The first volume includes 'The American Claimant' along with humorous essays and stories, while the second volume features 'A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court'. 
The translation of 'A Connecticut Yankee...' was done by the female translator Nadezhda Fedorova, about whom little is known. She also prepared the Russian edition (1900) of George Washington's biography by François Guizot. 

Levidova, #1 and #2.

OCLC locates three copies of this edition in the USA: in the Stanford University Library, the Ohio State University Library and the Berkeley Library (only vol. 1).

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