false http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1166854649m/17904.jpg 17904 7 <div><i>The Coast of Utopia</i> is Tom Stoppard's long-awaited and monumental trilogy that explores a group of friends who came of age under the Tsarist autocracy of Nicholas I, and for whom the term intelligentsia was coined. Among them are the anarchist Michael Bakunin, who was to challenge Marx for the soul of the masses; Ivan Turgenev, author of some of the most enduring works in Russian literature; the brilliant, erratic young critic Vissarion Belinsky; and Alexander Herzen, a nobleman's son and the first self-proclaimed socialist in Russia, who becomes the main focus of this drama of politics, love, loss, and betrayal. In <i>The Coast of Utopia</i>, Stoppard presents an inspired examination of the struggle between romantic anarchy, utopian idealism, and practical reformation in this chronicle of romantics and revolutionaries caught up in a struggle for political freedom in an age of emperors.</div> 1672806 7 2003 The Coast of Utopia total:119|5:41|4:44|3:23|2:10|1:1| 119 471 244 20 429666 0802143407 9780802143402 18 5 3.96 http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/429666.The_Coast_of_Utopia_Voyage_Shipwreck_Salvage 5 1 true Tue Jun 17 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Wed Apr 30 15:30:01 -0700 2008 Tue Jun 24 13:06:50 -0700 2008 The Coast of Utopia distills a century or so of scholarship about the foment that preceded the Russian revolution from the 1830s on, mostly using Alexander Herzen (a skeptical Socialist) as a lens. Like Invention of Love, Stoppar...more...]]> 17904 0802140033 9780802140036 95 14 3.96 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1166854649m/17904.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17904.The_Coast_of_Utopia 5 0 false Mon Jan 07 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Thu Feb 19 21:39:08 -0800 2009 Fri Feb 20 05:21:14 -0800 2009 more...]]> 17904 0802140033 9780802140036 95 14 3.96 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1166854649m/17904.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17904.The_Coast_of_Utopia 4 0 false Wed Jan 07 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Thu Jan 08 05:45:13 -0800 2009 Sun Jan 11 21:01:52 -0800 2009 Rock and Roll, when clearly it would have been preferable to have done so beforehand:

“As a way of writing a story, choosing to strip it down to dialogue and a few stage ...more...]]> 17904 0802140033 9780802140036 95 14 3.96 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1166854649m/17904.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17904.The_Coast_of_Utopia 4 0 false Mon Dec 15 10:12:33 -0800 2008 Mon Dec 15 10:19:49 -0800 2008 more...]]> 17904 0802140033 9780802140036 95 14 3.96 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1166854649m/17904.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17904.The_Coast_of_Utopia 2 0 false Mon Jun 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Mon Jun 08 11:04:06 -0700 2009 Fri Jul 10 07:32:35 -0700 2009 The beginning of this play was strangely atypical of Stoppard. Not only is it based on Russian life in the 19th century, it READ like something written by a 19th century Russian. It became more Stoppard-like once people start philosophizing about art and beauty, but even then, there is ...more...]]> 17904 0802140033 9780802140036 95 14 3.96 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1166854649m/17904.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17904.The_Coast_of_Utopia 2 0 false Thu Sep 11 12:26:14 -0700 2008 Thu Sep 11 12:36:20 -0700 2008 more...]]> 17904 0802140033 9780802140036 95 14 3.96 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1166854649m/17904.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17904.The_Coast_of_Utopia 3 0 false Thu Feb 01 00:00:00 -0800 2007 Thu Jan 24 06:39:56 -0800 2008 Thu Jan 24 06:50:16 -0800 2008 The Coast of Utopia, Tom Stoppard’s trilogy of plays about the early Russian intelligentsia, but perhaps the most important lesson for developing writers is a conflation of revolutionary principles and the artistic process.

One lesson is to ignore the plot of on...more...]]> 429666 0802143407 9780802143402 18 5 3.96 http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/429666.The_Coast_of_Utopia_Voyage_Shipwreck_Salvage 5 0 false Thu Jun 14 22:25:57 -0700 2007 Tue Jun 26 17:10:39 -0700 2007 DOCTOR: ...A good plumber is worth twenty poets.... For a useful book, give me Mackenzie's No More Haemorrhoids!
TURGENEV (enthusiastically): Yes, it's extremely good. (He holds up the newspaper cutting.) In case you missed it, there's an advertisement in the paper for Holloway's Pills. Remarka...more...]]> 17904 0802140033 9780802140036 95 14 3.96 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1166854649m/17904.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17904.The_Coast_of_Utopia 4 0 false Fri May 29 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Thu May 07 20:40:41 -0700 2009 Fri May 29 20:50:17 -0700 2009 more...]]> 17904 0802140033 9780802140036 95 14 3.96 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1166854649m/17904.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17904.The_Coast_of_Utopia 2 0 false Sun Apr 13 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Fri Jan 16 18:28:20 -0800 2009 Fri Jan 16 18:30:38 -0800 2009 17904 0802140033 9780802140036 95 14 3.96 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1166854649m/17904.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17904.The_Coast_of_Utopia 0 0 false Sun Jun 14 15:57:33 -0700 2009 Sun Jun 14 15:57:33 -0700 2009 17904 0802140033 9780802140036 95 14 3.96 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1166854649m/17904.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17904.The_Coast_of_Utopia 4 0 false Tue Aug 18 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Wed Aug 19 20:09:05 -0700 2009 Wed Aug 19 20:09:47 -0700 2009 429666 0802143407 9780802143402 18 5 3.96 http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/429666.The_Coast_of_Utopia_Voyage_Shipwreck_Salvage 2 0 false Mon Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2007 Fri Feb 15 11:47:06 -0800 2008 Fri Feb 15 11:56:36 -0800 2008 more...]]> 17904 0802140033 9780802140036 95 14 3.96 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1166854649m/17904.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17904.The_Coast_of_Utopia 4 0 false Tue Apr 29 10:31:47 -0700 2008 Sat Dec 15 08:03:52 -0800 2007 Tue Apr 29 10:31:47 -0700 2008 more...]]> 959510 2 1 3.96 http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/959510.The_Coast_of_Utopia 5 0 false Thu Feb 01 00:00:00 -0800 2007 Mon May 21 23:54:45 -0700 2007 Tue May 22 00:03:45 -0700 2007 17904 0802140033 9780802140036 95 14 3.96 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1166854649m/17904.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17904.The_Coast_of_Utopia 4 0 false Fri Jun 27 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Mon Jun 23 05:53:11 -0700 2008 Sat Jun 28 06:03:56 -0700 2008 The Coast of Utopia is so busy, nuanced, and layered that the plays are probably much more effective on stage (where I have not seen them) than in print. Even so, this was a lot of fun to read.]]> 429666 0802143407 9780802143402 18 5 3.96 http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/429666.The_Coast_of_Utopia_Voyage_Shipwreck_Salvage 0 0 false Wed Apr 30 20:28:48 -0700 2008 Wed Apr 30 20:29:31 -0700 2008 17904 0802140033 9780802140036 95 14 3.96 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1166854649m/17904.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17904.The_Coast_of_Utopia 0 0 false Tue Apr 14 18:57:15 -0700 2009 Tue May 26 16:28:30 -0700 2009 17904 0802140033 9780802140036 95 14 3.96 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1166854649m/17904.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17904.The_Coast_of_Utopia 5 0 false Mon Mar 05 21:04:30 -0800 2007 Mon Mar 05 21:14:00 -0800 2007 429666 0802143407 9780802143402 18 5 3.96 http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/429666.The_Coast_of_Utopia_Voyage_Shipwreck_Salvage 5 0 false Tue May 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Sat Jun 30 01:14:46 -0700 2007 Sat Jun 30 01:16:14 -0700 2007 http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=17904