Pushkin

by T.J.Binyon (Author)

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  Hardcover
  2002

  $3.49

  A biography of one of literature's most romantic and enigmatic figures. Alexander Sergeevich Pushkin was possibly Russia's greatest poet - the nearest Russian equivalent to Shakespeare - and his brief life was as turbulent and dramatic as anything in his work. Born in Moscow in 1799, Pushkin was expelled from St Petersburg at the age of 20 as a result of his satirical writings. He remained in internal exile, under the supervision of the Emperor, for the next seven years, and throughout his life he continued to excite official disapproval for his political and religious beliefs. In 1832 he married a young beauty, Natalia Goncharova. Five years later he became jealous of the attentions paid to her by a French nobleman, and challenged him to a duel, in which he was fatally injured. Pushkin's life and writings have inspired generations of devotees, and his influence continues to be felt in the present day.

• Used

  Paperback
  2003

  $4.66

  A major biography of one of literature's most romantic and enigmatic figures, published in hardback to great acclaim: `one of the great biographies of recent times' (Sunday Telegraph).

  Alexander Sergeevich Pushkin is indisputably Russia's greatest poet - the nearest Russian equivalent to Shakespeare - and his brief life was as turbulent and dramatic as anything in his work. T.J Binyon's biography of this brilliant and rebellious figure is `a remarkable achievement' and its publication `a real event' (Catriona Kelly, Guardian).

  `No other work on Pushkin on the same scale, and with the same grasp of atmosphere and detail, exists in English... And Pushkin is well worth writing about... he was a remarkable man, a man of action as well as a poet, and he lived a remarkable life, dying in a duel at the age of thirty-seven.' (John Bayley, Literary Review)

  Among the delights of this beautifully illustrated and lavishly produced book are the `caricatures of venal old men with popping eyes and side-whiskers, society beauties with long necks and empire curls and, most touchingly, images of his cross-eyed madonna Natalya' (Rachel Polonsky, Evening Standard).

  Binyon `knows almost everything there is to know about Pushkin. He scrupulously chronicles his life in all its disorder, from his years at the Lycee through exile in the Crimea, Bessarabia and Odessa, for writing liberal verses, and on to the publication of Eugene Onegin and, eventually, after much wrangling with the censor, Boris Godunov' (Julian Evans, New Statesman) and in this, `Binyon is unbeatable'(Clive James, TLS).

• New

  Paperback
  2003

  $22.76

  A major biography of one of literature's most romantic and enigmatic figures, published in hardback to great acclaim: `one of the great biographies of recent times' (Sunday Telegraph).

  Alexander Sergeevich Pushkin is indisputably Russia's greatest poet - the nearest Russian equivalent to Shakespeare - and his brief life was as turbulent and dramatic as anything in his work. T.J Binyon's biography of this brilliant and rebellious figure is `a remarkable achievement' and its publication `a real event' (Catriona Kelly, Guardian).

  `No other work on Pushkin on the same scale, and with the same grasp of atmosphere and detail, exists in English... And Pushkin is well worth writing about... he was a remarkable man, a man of action as well as a poet, and he lived a remarkable life, dying in a duel at the age of thirty-seven.' (John Bayley, Literary Review)

  Among the delights of this beautifully illustrated and lavishly produced book are the `caricatures of venal old men with popping eyes and side-whiskers, society beauties with long necks and empire curls and, most touchingly, images of his cross-eyed madonna Natalya' (Rachel Polonsky, Evening Standard).

  Binyon `knows almost everything there is to know about Pushkin. He scrupulously chronicles his life in all its disorder, from his years at the Lycee through exile in the Crimea, Bessarabia and Odessa, for writing liberal verses, and on to the publication of Eugene Onegin and, eventually, after much wrangling with the censor, Boris Godunov' (Julian Evans, New Statesman) and in this, `Binyon is unbeatable'(Clive James, TLS).