How It All Began
Subtitle: The Prison Novel
Contributors: Steven Cohen (Foreword); George Shriver (Translator)
Edition: New Ed edition
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Published: April 15, 1999
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 400
ISBN-13: 9780231107310
Subjects: Modern fiction; Novels, other prose & writers: from c 1900 -; History; Biography / Autobiography; Russian; History: World; ASIA; Eastern Europe; Eastern Europe - General; General; Historical - General; History / Europe / General; Asia - General
First sentence: Kolya Petrov was born at the end of the eighties of the last century in Moscow, on Bolshaya Ordynka-that is, in the Zamoskvorechye district, in a building belonging to the Aleksandro-Mariinsky Zamoskvorechye Merchants Association.