Boa Constrictor, Ivan Franko, n.d. circa 1950s, HCDJ

by Ivan Franko

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Boa Constrictor Ivan Franko n.d., circa 1950s Originally published in 1878. Published in the Soviet Union for export sometime between 1946 - 1964 which was when this publisher was in operation. Translated from the Russian by Faina Solasko. Ivan Yakovych Franko (27 August 1856 – 28 May 1916) was a Ukrainian poet, writer, social and literary critic, journalist, translator, economist, political activist, doctor of philosophy, ethnographer, and the author of the first detective novels and modern poetry in the Ukrainian language. He was a political radical, and a founder of the socialist and nationalist movement in Western Ukraine. In addition to his own literary work, he also translated into Ukrainian the works of such renowned figures as William Shakespeare, Lord Byron, Pedro Calderón de la Barca, Dante Alighieri, Victor Hugo, Adam Mickiewicz, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe and Friedrich Schiller. His translations appeared on the stage of the Ruska Besida Theatre. Along with Taras Shevchenko, he has had a tremendous influence on modern literary and political thought in Ukraine. --Wikipedia His greatest masterpieces of prose are the novel Boa constrictor (1878) and the social novel Boryslav smiiet’sia (1881), which for the first time depict the incipient forms of revolutionary struggle among the workers and the spontaneous awakening of working class consciousness. --www.encyclopediaofukraine.com Illustrated with black & white drawings. See photos for a better idea of item's actual co

• Publisher: Foreign Languages Publishing House
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: Good

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