Description
"Past and Thoughts is the improvisational masterpiece of Russia's most prominent nonfiction writer of the nineteenth century. His memoir is frequently cited by European scholars as testimony and witness to vital events of the time. This monumental work combines the very public and private sides of a man who preserved for posterity the consequential times in which he lived. This new, annotated and abridged translation includes the famous and deeply moving section on the tragic denouement of Herzen's marriage, which was not published in his lifetime and was omitted from previous abridgements."-- Provided by publisher.
