Collected prose works by one of Russla's towering literary figures; Osip Mandelstam has in recent years come to be seen as a central figure in European modernism. Though known primarily as a poet, Mandelstam worked in many styles: autobiography, short story, travel writing, and polemic. Mandelstam's biographer, Clarence Brown, presents a collection of the poet's prose works that illuminates Mandelstam's far-ranging talent and places him within the canon of European modernism. This volume includes Mandelstam's The Noise of Time, a series of autobiographical sketches; The Egyptian Stamp, a novella echoing Gogol and Dostoevsky; Fourth Prose, and the famous travel memoirs Theodosia and Journey to Armenia.