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**My Past and Thoughts** (Russian: *Былое и думы*, romanized: *Byloje i dumy*) is an extensive autobiography by Alexander Herzen, which he started in the early 1850s and continued to expand and revise throughout his later life.
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- earnestironic
- unpretentiousprestige
- gravecomic
- contemplativerelentless
- classical in formformally daring
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- Author
- Aleksandr Herzen
- First published
- 1921
- Pages
- 561
- Publisher
- Russell & Russell, Khudozh. lit., "Khudozh. lit-ry"
- Editions
- 26
- Language
- English, Russian, German
- ISBN
- 9780394719795
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About Aleksandr Herzen · 1812–1870
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