To the Memory of Childhood

by Lydia Chukovskaya

Book Overview

For years Lydia Chukovskaya's support for persecuted writers cut her off from her own audience. Even her name was banned in the USSR, and she was expelled from the Union of Writers in 1974. Though unable to publish at home and cut off from contacts with readers and editors, Chukovskaya continued to write. To the Memory of Childhood, her loving chronicle of growing up beside the Gulf of Finland with her father, the writer Kornei Chukovsky,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0810107902
• ISBN13: 9780810107908
• Release Date: September 1988
• Publisher: Northwestern University Press
• Length: 168 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.1"