Osip Mandelstam review of JACK LONDON. COLLECTED WORKS. INTRODUCTION BY LEONID ANDREEV. TRANSLATED BY A. N. KUDRYATSEVA. translated into English in The complete critical prose (1997)
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The most ordinary spiritual void surrounds Jack London's adventures, recalling a similar void which envelops the journalistic feuilleton or Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's detective stories.
— Osip Mandelstam review of JACK LONDON. COLLECTED WORKS. INTRODUCTION BY LEONID ANDREEV. TRANSLATED BY A. N. KUDRYATSEVA. translated into English
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About Arthur Conan Doyle
Sir Arthur Ignatius Conan Doyle (May 22 1859 – July 7 1930) was a British writer and physician, most famous as the creator of the character Sherlock Holmes.
About Arthur Conan Doyle
Sir Arthur Ignatius Conan Doyle (May 22 1859 – July 7 1930) was a British writer and physician, most famous as the creator of the character Sherlock Holmes.
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