false http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172523825m/184913.jpg 184913 21 Taking place over a short, turbulent period in 1905, "Petersburg" is a colourful evocation of Russia's capital—a kaleidoscope of images and impressions, an eastern window on the west, a symbol of the ambiguities and paradoxes of the Russian character. History, culture and politics are blended and juxtaposed; weather reports, current news, fashions and psychology jostle together with people from Petersburg society in an exhilarating search for the identity of a city and, ultimately, Russia itself. 'The one novel that sums up the whole of Russia.'—Anthony Burgess 3538 book 1913 Петербург total:292|5:131|4:80|3:62|2:18|1:1| 292 1198 517 35 184913 0253202191 9780253202192 249 27 4.10 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172523825m/184913.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/184913.Petersburg 3 2 false Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2004 Tue Aug 14 18:28:27 -0700 2007 Fri May 02 16:38:05 -0700 2008 more...]]> 184913 0253202191 9780253202192 249 27 4.10 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172523825m/184913.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/184913.Petersburg 5 1 false Fri Jul 01 00:00:00 -0700 2005 Wed Sep 05 11:22:52 -0700 2007 Wed Sep 05 11:31:56 -0700 2007 more...]]> 4875427 039417237X 9780394172378 1 1 4.10 http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/4875427.St_Petersburg 5 1 false Wed Nov 12 13:33:48 -0800 2008 Wed Nov 12 13:42:05 -0800 2008 more...]]> 184913 0253202191 9780253202192 249 27 4.10 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172523825m/184913.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/184913.Petersburg 5 1 false Sun Jun 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Mon Jun 16 14:33:58 -0700 2008 Sun Jul 27 15:39:35 -0700 2008 more...]]> 184913 0253202191 9780253202192 249 27 4.10 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172523825m/184913.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/184913.Petersburg 5 1 false Mon Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2001 Fri Oct 26 20:19:48 -0700 2007 Fri Oct 26 20:24:56 -0700 2007
Like the works of Gogol, Bulgakov and Dostoevsky, Bely's writing seems to straddle ...more...]]> 184913 0253202191 9780253202192 249 27 4.10 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172523825m/184913.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/184913.Petersburg 5 1 false Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2004 Wed Oct 08 08:24:37 -0700 2008 Wed Oct 08 08:28:28 -0700 2008 more...]]> 433172 0802131581 9780802131584 19 5 4.10 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1174713246m/433172.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/433172.St_Petersburg 3 1 false Thu Sep 20 06:39:07 -0700 2007 Mon Jul 09 15:02:00 -0700 2007 Mon Jul 09 18:37:37 -0700 2007
There are a few elements missing from this novel, there's a level of developmental sup...more...]]> 184913 0253202191 9780253202192 249 27 4.10 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172523825m/184913.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/184913.Petersburg 4 1 false Wed Apr 23 06:31:20 -0700 2008 Wed Apr 23 06:33:35 -0700 2008 more...]]> 184913 0253202191 9780253202192 249 27 4.10 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172523825m/184913.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/184913.Petersburg 3 1 false Sun Feb 24 11:40:27 -0800 2008 Sun Feb 24 12:06:27 -0800 2008 Anna Karenina and Ulysses) so I felt I should like it more than I did. Perhaps I'm just a fool. Or perhaps I don't always have to recognize the genius of what a genius liked in order to appreciate the genius of that genius. more...]]> 184913 0253202191 9780253202192 249 27 4.10 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172523825m/184913.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/184913.Petersburg 5 1 false Sat Jul 28 13:53:01 -0700 2007 Sat Jul 28 13:53:01 -0700 2007 184913 0253202191 9780253202192 249 27 4.10 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172523825m/184913.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/184913.Petersburg 4 1 false Tue Feb 03 10:10:00 -0800 2009 Tue Feb 03 10:28:01 -0800 2009 184913 0253202191 9780253202192 249 27 4.10 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172523825m/184913.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/184913.Petersburg 5 1 false Sun Oct 01 00:00:00 -0800 1911 Mon Oct 08 14:35:23 -0700 2007 Mon Oct 08 14:36:45 -0700 2007
This is the Ulysses of Russian literature. Besides ushering in their high-modernist period, Bely's masterpiece was also a favorite of Nabokov.

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