My Half-Century: Selected Prose

Anna Akhmatova is known as one of twentieth-century Russia's greatest poets, a member of the quartet that included Mandelstam, Pasternak, and Tsvetaeva. Famous at an early age for her love poems and beauty, Akhmatova later became a voice of her country's misery as she chronicled the harsh realities of the revolutionary generation.

This edition contains all of her major prose, includes her brilliant articles on Pushkin, memoir entries on Modigliani in Paris and Mandelstam's friendship, her public addresses, and her illuminating comments on the genesis of her masterpiece, A Poem without a Hero, as well as extensive notes and a detailed biographical sketch.