The Intelligentsia of Great Britain

1935, the first UK edition of Dmitri Mirsky's critical assessment

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Printing Details

First UK edition. Hardback, black cloth with gilt titling to spine. 20 × 14.5cm, 237pp.

First published in Moscow in 1934, this is Mirsky's assessment of the British intelligentsia (George Bernard Shaw, H.G. Wells, G.K. Chesterton, John Maynard Keynes, The Bloomsbury Group etc), its emergence after the Great War and its response to religion, the sciences, and communism. The author was a Russian political and literary historian who did much to promote Russian literature in England, He was arrested for espionage in Russia and died in a gulag in 1937. The critical response to this title was mixed, George Orwell's assessment stands out when he called it "a viciously malignant book".

Condition

Fair condition only. The boards are heavily rubbed and faded, with some light foxing to the pages. Occasional pencil annotation to the margins, and stamped from the Scottish Red Cross library in Alexandria, Egypt. The book remains in good readable condition but is heavily worn.

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