Beyond Holy Russia
Subtitle: the Life and Times of Stephen Graham
By: Michael Hughes
Publisher: Open Book Publishers
Published: 2015
Place of publication: Cambridge
Language: eng
Number of pages: 357
ISBN-13: 9782821854062
Subjects: Stephen Graham; Written literature; Travel writing; Russia; Russie
Description: This biography examines the long life of the traveller and author Stephen Graham. Graham walked across large parts of the Tsarist Empire in the years before 1917, describing his adventures in a series of books and articles that helped to shape attitudes towards Russia in Britain and the United States. In later years he travelled widely across Europe and North America, meeting some of the best known writers of the twentieth century, including H.G. Wells and Ernest Hemingway. Graham also wrote numerous novels and biographies that won him a wide readership on both sides of the Atlantic. This book traces Graham's career as a world traveller, and provides a rich portrait of English, Russian and American literary life in the first half of the twentieth century. It also examines how many aspects of his life and writing coincide with contemporary concerns, including the development of New Age spirituality and the rise of environmental awareness. The result is a fascinating portrait of a man who was for many years a significant literary figure on both sides of the Atlantic.
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