{"product_id":"collins-wilkie-poor-miss-finch-bednaia-miss-finch","title":"Collins, Wilkie [Poor Miss Finch]. Bednaia Miss Finch.","description":"\u003ch2 class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-US\" style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-US;\"\u003eCollins, Wilkie\u003cspan style=\"mso-tab-count: 1;\"\u003e  \u003c\/span\u003e[Poor Miss Finch]. Bednaia Miss Finch. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-US\" style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-US;\"\u003eS.-Peterburg, E.N. Akhmatova, 1871. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-US\" style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-US;\"\u003e8vo, 3-482 pp.\u003cspan style=\"mso-tab-count: 1;\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eIn modern half leather, spine lettered in gilt. Loss of the half-title. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-US\" style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-US;\"\u003eIn good condition, very lightly rubbed to corners, foxing and toning, dampstaining around edges. \u003cspan style=\"mso-tab-count: 2;\"\u003e                            \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-US\" style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-US;\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eVery rare.\u003c\/strong\u003e One of the two earliest Russian translations, both published in the same year. First edition of this translation. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-US\" style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-US;\"\u003eThe first Russian translation of Wilkie Collins’s novel \u003cem\u003ePoor Miss Finch\u003c\/em\u003e appeared in 1871 in two versions—this one and another published in Moscow as a supplement to the journal \u003cem\u003eRusskii Vestnik\u003c\/em\u003e—both anonymously.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-US\" style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-US;\"\u003eAlthough the translator is not credited in this edition, it is likely the work of \u003cstrong\u003eElizaveta Akhmatova\u003c\/strong\u003e (1820–1904), a prominent writer, publisher, and translator. Akhmatova published the monthly serial \u003cem\u003eSobranie Inostrannykh Romanov, Povestei i Rasskazov (‘Collection of Foreign Novels, Stories, and Short Stories’)\u003c\/em\u003e from 1856 to 1885, which introduced Russian readers to the first translations of works by Charles Dickens, Wilkie Collins, Edward Bulwer-Lytton, and Edgar Allan Poe.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-US\" style=\"font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 107%; font-family: 'Aptos',sans-serif; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: Aptos; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA;\"\u003eInterestingly, the first book edition of \u003cem\u003ePoor Miss Finch\u003c\/em\u003e was published in 1872. This suggests that the Russian translations were based on the serialized versions of the novel, which appeared in \u003cem\u003eHarper’s Weekly\u003c\/em\u003e (September 2, 1871 – February 24, 1872) and \u003cem\u003eCassell’s Magazine\u003c\/em\u003e (October 1871 – March 1872). It is possible that Russian publishers chose to date the translation 1871, even though the story’s conclusion had not yet been published at that time.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-US\" style=\"font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 107%; font-family: 'Aptos',sans-serif; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: Aptos; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA;\"\u003eWe couldn’t trace any copy of this edition in the USA or European libraries via OCLC.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Biblionne Rare Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52351808209208,"sku":null,"price":2000.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0673\/6511\/0072\/files\/B283_2_Large_457e1778-a9ed-46ab-ad81-6e0645844e42.jpg?v=1778579055","url":"https:\/\/biblionnerarebooks.com\/products\/collins-wilkie-poor-miss-finch-bednaia-miss-finch","provider":"Biblionne Rare Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}