A Taste for Freedom by Anka Muhlstein
Ambassador George Kennan once called Astolphe de Custine's Russia in 1839 'The Best guide to Russia ever written.' It was essential, in his view, to understanding Stalin and the Soviet Union. Its author was a cosmopolitain son of the French Revolution, whose father and granfather had been guillotined and whose mother had been imprisoned. Muhlstein's lively biography, translated by Teresa Waugh, introduces readers to Astolphe de Custine, a passionate literary figure, a poet, playwright, essayist, traveler, aristocrat, and homosexual adventurer.Anka Muhlstein was born in the city of Paris in the year 1935. Muhlstein's works include biographies of Queen Victoria, James de Rothschild, Cavelier de La Salle, and Astolphe de Custine, as well as studies of Catherine de Médicis, Marie de Médicis, and Anne of Austria, a double biography of Elizabeth I and Mary Stuart, and, most recently, Balzac's Omelette (Other Press). She has received two Académie française prizes, as well as the Goncourt Prize for Biography. Venice for Lovers is a book she and her husband, Louis Begley, wrote about Venice. They are residents of New York City.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781885983411 |
| ISBN 10 | 1885983417 |
| Title | A Taste for Freedom |
| Author | Anka Muhlstein |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Turtle Point Press |
| Year published | 2008-04-01 |
| Number of pages | 391 |
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