Mikhail Zoshchenko was a household name in the Soviet Union from the 1920s until the crackdown on the arts after World War II. This is a full-length study in English of his career, and of his critical and political reception in a society where the purpose of art was service to the state. It places his longer works and the events leading up to his literary assassination in 1946 in the context of the short, riotous works that won him mass readership and a devoted following among contemporary writers who agreed with each other on little else. Dr Scatton identifies stylistic and thematic unities in his prose, and argues that Zoshchenko's later works were natural outgrowths of his earlier experiments and not, as is often stated, aberrations or expressions of subservience to the regime. Both as a master of Russian prose and a victim of Stalinist literary politics, Zoshchenko has been the object of critical rediscovery and reassessment over the last 15 years. This book describes that process.

This collaboration of poetry with five extraordinary Authors makes this book enjoyably engaging, inspirational, relatable, educational, and emotionally riveting, All the things you think, feel, or wish you would have had the words to say you will find them in and between the lines in this Grown Folks Edition of Just SaySomething Vol. II. Just when you thought you understood every word for every line you will find a new meaning and a better understanding. This book you can enjoy today and 25 years from tomorrow and never will feel one ounce of redundancy because this book grows with you. The more your mind expands the more you will understand.

What happens when mummy is not watching. Mummy doesn't know everything, especially when I am a dinosaur, but there is one thing that mummy does know....