
Crewe Train. The only Russian translation.
Macaulay, Rose [Crewe Train: A novel]. Zapadnia: Roman. Translation by D. Gorfinkel’. [Cover by A. Ushin]. Leningrad-Moskva, Izdatel’stvo “Kniga”, [1927].8vo, 220, [2] pp. In original pictorial wrappers. In good condition, lightly rubbed and soiled, traces of creasing to front cover, neatly repair to spine end, stains to back cover, scattered foxing, short tears to some page edges.. The only Russian translation. Second and last Macaulay's book in Russian. One of 4 200 copies published. The first Russian translation of a book by Rose Macaulay (1881–1958)—an English writer influenced by Virginia Woolf and also known for her biographies, travelogues, and poetry—appeared in 1926 with the publication of ‘Orphan Island’. The following year, two more of her works were published in Russian: a new translation of ‘Orphan Island’ and the first and only Russian translation of ‘Crewe Train’ (1926). Despite the fact that these books were translated soon after their original publication, they re