
Author/Contributor(s): | Durova, Nadezhda |
Publisher: | Indiana University Press |
Date: | 08/22/1989 |
Binding: | Paperback |
Condition: | NEW |
. . . a ripping yarn . . . admirable translation . . . sensitive introductory essay. --Times Literary Supplement
. . . a remarkable journal worthy of the attention of a wide audience. --Doris Grumbach, National Public Radio
In male guise, Nadezhda Durova served ten years in the Russian cavalry. The Cavalry Maiden is a lively narrative which appeals in our own time as a unique and gripping contribution to the literature of female experience.