Word: dostoievsky
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...prices obviously below the cost of manufacture. Fascist authorities scented propaganda. Last week, armed with orders from the Italian Department of the Interior (Italy's Department of the Interior: Benito Mussolini), black-shirted, truncheon-swinging Fascist Militia raided bookstores, bundled all editions of the works of Gorky, Gogol, Dostoievski, Tolstoy, Turgeniev, and even Jack London into vans. Official reason: "Low-priced editions of these works have injured the sale of books by modern Italian writers. They often contain seed for Communist propaganda...
Conversely, Euripides was a great Bolshevik, Aristophanes a greater; Michelangelo and Milton, Bunyan and Beethoven, Dante and Dostoievski, George Bernard Shaw and Upton Sinclair?all splendid Bolsheviks looking forward to "a complex social order and to social art which will possess an intensity and subtlety beyond the power of comprehension, not merely of Russian peasants, but of the exclusive and fastidious culture of our time...
...Dostoievski, George Eliot, Browning, Cervantes, Rabelais, Whitman, James Joyce, James Barrie, Amy Lowell, Kipling, Conrad, Dickens, Scott, Wordsworth, Wells - all have their staunch supporters for the poison ivy wreath. Some of the critics give reasons. Comments Thomas Beer upon St. Paul, his second nominee : " They left him alone with the Christian church and he made it what it is today." Upon Blaise Pascal : " I am told by one young enough to be an authority that ' Pascal's sad, burning thought descends to the inmost seat of being.' Let it work while I sleep." Ernest Boyd describes...