William Mills Todd III
The Familiar Letter as a Literary Genre in the Age of Pushkin.
Princeton University Press, 1976. Studies of the Russian Institute, Columbia University. First edition. 0691063192 xii/230 pages.
Volume, measuring approximately 6" x 9", is bound in light gray cloth, with stamped gilt lettering to spine. Book is in fine condition, with solid binding, clean and bright pages. Dust jacket displays light shelfwear.
"The author considers familiar letters from archival and published sources in chapters on decorum, characterization, style, organizational principles, and closure. In so doing, he discovers a central outlet of the period's creative energies and, as in Pushkin's verse novel "Eugene Onegin", an encyclopedia of authorial personae, literary interests and formal techniques."