{"product_id":"pushkin-a-biography-9781400076529","title":"Pushkin: A Biography","description":"In the course of his short, dramatic life, Aleksandr Pushkin gave Russia not only its greatest poetry-including the novel-in-verse \u003cb\u003eEugene Onegin\u003c\/b\u003e-but a new literary language. He also gave it a figure of enduring romantic allure-fiery, restless, extravagant, a prodigal gambler and inveterate seducer of women. Having forged a dazzling, controversial career that cost him the enmity of one tsar and won him the patronage of another, he died at the age of thirty-eight, following a duel with a French officer who was paying unscrupulous attention to his wife.\u003cbr\u003eIn his magnificent, prizewinning \u003cb\u003ePushkin\u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003e, \u003c\/i\u003eT. J. Binyon lifts the veil of the iconic poet's myth to reveal the complexity and pathos of his life while brilliantly evoking Russia in all its nineteenth-century splendor. Combining exemplary scholarship with the pace and detail of a great novel, \u003cb\u003ePushkin\u003c\/b\u003e elevates biography to a work of art.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Vintage\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 11\/09\/2004\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781400076529\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 784\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.57lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.04h x 5.24w x 1.53d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eReview Citations: \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e 11\/21\/2004 pg. 36\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"T. J. Binyon","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43896700895413,"sku":"9781400076529","price":21.25,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/files\/img_a255cec5-dc7a-4488-b114-d4ff578eac16.jpg?v=1712631738","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/pushkin-a-biography-9781400076529","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}