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Grove Press
July 2003
On Sale: July 1, 2003
384 pages
ISBN: 0802140033
EAN: 9780802140036
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Literature and Fiction Drama
The Coast of Utopia is Tom Stoppard's long-awaited and
monumental trilogy that explores a group of friends who came
of age under the Tsarist autocracy of Nicholas I, and for
whom the term intelligentsia was coined. Among them are the
anarchist Michael Bakunin, who was to challenge Marx for the
soul of the masses; Ivan Turgenev, author of some of the
most enduring works in Russian literature; the brilliant,
erratic young critic Vissarion Belinsky; and Alexander
Herzen, a nobleman's son and the first self-proclaimed
socialist in Russia, who becomes the main focus of this
drama of politics, love, loss, and betrayal. In The Coast of
Utopia, Stoppard presents an inspired examination of the
struggle between romantic anarchy, utopian idealism, and
practical reformation in this chronicle of romantics and
revolutionaries caught up in a struggle for political
freedom in an age of emperors.
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