A perceptive literary critic, a world-famous writer of witty and playful verses for children, a leading authority on children’s linguistic creativity, and a highly skilled translator, Kornei Chukovsky was a complete man of letters. As benefactor to many writers including Alexander Solzhenitsyn and Joseph Brodsky, he stood for several decades at the center of the Russian literary milieu. It is no exaggeration to claim that Chukovsky knew everyone involved in shaping the course of twentieth-century Russian literature. His voluminous diary, here translated into English for the first time, begins in prerevolutionary Russia and spans nearly the entire Soviet era. It is the candid commentary of a brilliant observer who documents fifty years of Soviet literary activity and the personal predicament of the writer under a totalitarian regime. From descriptions of friendship with such major literary figures as Anna Akhmatova and Isaac Babel to accounts of the struggle with obtuse and hostile censorship, from the heartbreaking story of the death of the daughter who had inspired so many stories to candid political statements, the extraordinary diary of Kornei Chukovsky is a unique account of the twentieth-century Russian experience.

Diary, 1901-1969

Biographies & Memoirs

Chukovsky, Kornei

Arts & Literature

Yale University Press

The telephone

Delacorte Press/S. Lawrence

Discusses the language of preschool children, and how it is enriched by poetry and fantasy

From Two to Five

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Psychology & Counseling

Univ. Of California Pr.

Morton, Miriam

Sayers, Frances Clarke

University of California Press

The first book in the new Children's International Series by the great Russian writer Kornei Chukovksy. Doctor Ouch tells the story of a gentle vet who travels from Russia to Africa to save the jungle animals.

Doctor Ouch

Children's Books

Seabaugh, Jan

Animals

Viveca Smith Pub

Telephone

The telephone begins to ring and ring and ring! From doves wanting gloves to baboons needing spoons, animal after animal calls, until the harried, hapless hero of this classic Russian nonsense poem is at his wits' end. Full color.

Gambrell, Jamey

Chukovsky, K

Radunsky

Humor

NorthSouth

The author's phone is rung constantly by animals calling about their problems.

Radunsky, Vladimir

Life with Granny Kandiki, In the Van, Little Fly So Sprighhtly

Marshak, Samuil

Garf, Anna

Literature & Fiction

Insight Publica

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