The Island of Sakhalin - Folio Society edition

The Island of Sakhalin

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The Island of Sakhalin - Folio Society edition
Folio Society
Biography & True Stories

The Island of Sakhalin

Anton Chekhov

Edition year 1989
Binding Cloth
Translator Luba and Michael Terpak
Weight 1 Kg
Pages 288
Dimensions 25.2 × 16.1 cm

Edition details

The Island of Sakhalin by Anton Chekhov, translated by Luba and Michael Terpak, introduction by Irina Ratushinskaya, with fifteen leaves of contemporary photographs. Full pale grey-brown cloth with a design in red and gold by Sue Bradbury, dark red endleaves. Dark red slipcase. 25.2 x 16.1 cm. 288 pp.

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Anton Chekhov's The Island of Sakhalin records his journey to the remote Russian penal colony of Sakhalin in 1890. Travelling thousands of miles across Siberia, Chekhov personally interviewed prisoners and settlers and investigated the conditions in which they lived. The result is an extraordinary mixture of travel writing, social investigation and humanitarian reportage. Chekhov documents overcrowding, poverty, forced labour and administrative neglect with remarkable clarity, creating one of the most important firsthand accounts of the Russian penal system.

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