Petersburg: A Novel in Eight Chapters with Aprologue And an Epilogue (Penguin Modern Classics) - Softcover

Andrei Bely; R.A. Maguire; J.E. Malmstad

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ISBN 10: 0140064125 ISBN 13: 9780140064124

Publisher: Penguin Classics, 1983

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" . . . the most accurate of all the available translations, and certainly the one that facilitates the greatest understanding of the original work."

--Michael R. Katz

About the Author:

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 pubilshed 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.

About this edition

• Publisher: Penguin Classics
• Publication date: 1983
• ISBN 10: 0140064125
• ISBN 13: 9780140064124
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 356