A book about a book
Rejoice my heart edited by Michael H Rosove is the latest offering from Adelie Books, named for the species of penguin, they specialise in publishing books about Antarctica. It is the correspondence between Emily Shackleton and Hugh Robert Mill, between 1922 and 1933 and tells the story behind the writing of Mill's biography of Sir Ernest Shackleton. The title comes from an expression in Emily's second letter, in which she expresses her gratitude to Mill, the greatest Antarctic historian of his time, for accepting the challenge of writing Shackleton's life story, just three months after his death.
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Instead of a book about a book this Saturday December 8th the Afternoon Play on BBC Radio 4 at 2.30pm Beast at Bay tells the story of the publication of Boris Pasternak's classic 20th-century novel Dr Zhivago. Censored by the Soviet regime, the book was first published in Italy 50 years ago after the manuscript was smuggled out of the country. The book's appearance caused furore in the Soviet Union and a debacle followed when Pasternak was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature.
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