The Collected Works

Readers get to know Chukovsky in childhood, remembering his poems for a lifetime, but for many this acquaintance ends in childhood. Meanwhile, the beloved classic of children's literature was also a critic, translator, prose writer, linguist, literary scholar, memoirist... Chukovsky... the translator gifted the Russian reader a whole library of works from English and American literature, Chukovsky the researcher, fascinated by the psychology of children's speech, created the famous book «From Two to Five», and Chukovsky the memoirist crafted a magnificent gallery of portraits of his contemporaries: Chekhov, Gorky, Blok, Akhmatova, Mayakovsky, Pasternak, Zoshchenko... Chukovsky's memoirs are vibrant, vivid, and extraordinarily interesting, and they rightfully represent one of the best examples of memoir prose of the twentieth century.