T.J. Binyon
In the course of his short, dramatic life, Aleksandr Pushkin gave Russia not only its greatest poetryâ€“including the novel-in-verse ,Eugene Onegin,â€“but a new literary language. He also gave it a figure of enduring romantic allureâ€“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.,In his magnificent, prizewinning ,Pushkin,, ,T. J. Binyon lifts the veil of the iconic poetâ€™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, ,Pushkin, elevates biography to a work of art.
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Pushkin: A Biography