num_pages: 256
description: Her mourth was almost pressed against his, and her words were like quick, hurried kisses: "You must absolutely go through with the duel tomorrow."This is an account of the final days of Czarist Russia. An absorbing saga about the brutalities of military life upon its own soldiers. Stranded at a distant outpost, young Romashov finds himself obliged to fight a duel — over something he realizes is meaningless. As the novel hurtles toward a startling conclusion, it reveals itself to be a luminous depiction of the end of an era.
language: English
title: The Duel
titlecomplete: The Duel (The Hyperion Library of World Literature)
genres: 20th Century, Russia, Historical Fiction, Literary Fiction, Novels, Literature, Russian Literature, Classics, Fiction
ratings_count: 783
publisher: New American Library