The Possessed: Adventures With Russian Books and the People Who Read Them

Farrar, Straus and Giroux

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Copyright © 2010 by Elif Batuman

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Distributed in Canada by D&M Publishers, Inc.

Printed in the United States of America

First edition, 2010

Some of these essays have appeared, in slightly different form, in Harper’s Magazine, n+1, and The New Yorker.

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Batuman, Elif, 1977–

The possessed : adventures with Russian books and the people who read them / Elif Batuman.—1st ed.

p. cm.

ISBN 978-0-374-53218-5 (pbk. : alk. paper)

1. Russian literature—Appreciation. I. Title.

PG2986 .B33 2010

891.7'09—dc22

2009025416

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