SHAGINIAN, Marietta Sergeevna.
Gëte [Goethe].
Moscow and Leningrad, Academy of Sciences of the USSR, 1950.
8vo, pp. 191, [1], with frontispiece and 3 full-page illustrations; a very good copy in the original publisher’s cloth, upper board lettered in gilt and blind, spine lettered gilt, a little rubbed.
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Gëte [Goethe].
First edition. Goethe was Shaginian’s idol, as attested by Puteshestvie v Veimar (Journey to Weimar). Here she presents a scholarly work on the great German writer, which particularly examines Russian (and Soviet) appreciations.
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