The Silver Crest (Masterplots II: Juvenile and Young Adult Biography Series)
At a glance:
- Author: Kornei Chukovsky
- First Published: 1968
- Time of Work: 1893–1899
- Setting: Odessa, a seaport on the Black Sea in the south of Russia
- Principal Characters: Kornei Chukovsky, Katerina Osipovna, Marusya, Timosha Makarov, Ivan Mitrofanych, Yosif Stock, Uncle Foma, Burgmeister, Prokhov Evgenich
- Genres: Nonfiction, Autobiography
- Subjects: Family or family life, Adolescence, Autobiography, Schools or school life, Poetry or poets, Writing, Russia or Russian people, Private schools
- Locales: Odessa, Ukraine
Form and Content
In The Silver Crest: My Russian Boyhood, Kornei Chukovsky recounts with humor and pathos the events of several years of his life, from the ages of thirteen to eighteen. It was a time of trauma, yet the author writes of it with much humor. That Chukovsky became Russia’s beloved children’s poet, the author of critical and scholarly works, and a translator of Walt Whitman, Mark Twain, O. Henry, and many others is a tribute to his determination to overcome adversity.
The book is divided into twenty-six chapters describing the young Chukovsky’s...
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