Lot 169
Kropotkin, Pyotr Alekseievich - Emile Zola
£600
Rare Books, Manuscripts, Maps & Photography
Auction: 13 January 2016 at 11:00 GMT
Description
Two autograph letters signed to the novelist and journalist William Westall, 11 pages, 8vo, Lyon & Clairvaux sur Aube, 1883 & 1885, written when Kropotkin was in prison in France during the period 1883-6 after being convicted of belonging to the International Workers' Association. In the first he reports on the trial process, declaring that he is not surprised of the condemnation, discusses his prison conditions, health and favourable reaction to Westall's novel "Red Ryvington" (1882). In the second letter, Kropotkin offers a substantial & informed discussion of Zola's novel "Germinal" (2)
