A Vital Question: or, What is to Be Done?
New York: Thomas Y. Crowell, 1886.
Second edition in the English language, by a matter of days, of the novel What is to Be Done? First edition of this translation. ix, 462 pp. Bound in publisher's olive cloth stamped in gilt. Very Good with moderate rubbing and soiling to covers, toning and dust-soiling to textblock edges, and light foxing to edges, endpapers, and prelims. Previous owner label to front free endpaper, overopened with stitches showing at p. 203. Line, Ettlinger & Gladstone p. 16, Chernyshevskii 1.
The Russian novel, written by Chernyshevsky in prison and published in 1863, that changed the course of human history. The author's rejection of moderate reform and vision of a socialist utopia inspired generations of revolutionaries including Lenin, Kropotkin, Rosa Luxemburg, and Emma Goldman.
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