num_pages: 784
description: In the course of his short, dramatic life, Aleksandr Pushkin gave Russia not only its greatest poetry–including the novel-in-verse Eugene Onegin –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.In his magnificent, prizewinning Pushkin , T. 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, Pushkin elevates biography to a work of art.
language: English
title: Pushkin: A Biography
titlecomplete: Pushkin: A Biography
characters: Alexander Pushkin
genres: Classics, History, Russia, Biography Memoir, Russian Literature, Biography, Literature, 19th Century, Poetry, Nonfiction
ratings_count: 365
awards: awardedAt: 1041408000000
name: Samuel Johnson Prize for Non-Fiction
publisher: Vintage