Petersburg
$28.18
- Paperback
624 pages
- Release Date
10 October 2011
Summary
Andrei Bely’s Petersburg is a colourful evocation of Russia’s capital during the short, turbulent period of the first socialist revolution in 1905. Considered Bely’s masterpiece, the story follows Nikolai Ableukhov’s journey as he is caught up in the revolutionary politics of those seminal days; exploring themes of history, identity, and family, the novel sees the young Russian chased through the misty Petersburg streets, tasked with planting a bomb intended to kill a government official - hi…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780141191744 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 0141191740 |
| Author: | Andrei Bely, David McDuff, Adam Thirlwell |
| Publisher: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Imprint: | Penguin Classics |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 624 |
| Release Date: | 10 October 2011 |
| Weight: | 440g |
| Dimensions: | 198mm x 130mm x 36mm |
| Series: | Penguin Classics |
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The most important, most influential and most perfectly realized Russian novel written in the twientieth century.
The most important, most influential and most perfectly realized Russian novel written in the twientieth century. * The New York Times Book Review *
The one novel that sums up the whole of Russia. * Anthony Burgess *
About The Author
Andrei Bely
Andrei Beley (born Boris Nikolaevich Bugaev) was born 26 October 1880. Beley was educated at Moscow University where he studied science and philosophy, before turning his focus to literature. In 1904 he published his first collection of poems, Gold in Azure, which was followed in 1909 by his first novel, The Silver Dove. Beley’s most famous novel, Petersburg, was published in 1916. His work is considered to have heavily influenced several literary schools, most notably Symbolism, and his impact on Russian writing has been compared to that of James Joyce on the English speaking world.
Adam Thirlwell (b.1978) studied English at New College, Oxford, and was subsequently elected as a fellow of All Souls College, Oxford in 1999. In 2003 his first novel, Politics, won the Betty Trask Award, and Miss Herbert, published in 2007, won the Somerset Maugham Award. Thirlwell’s third novel, The Escape, was published in September 2009.
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