![]() ![]() With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. ![]() Bely draws on news, fashion, psychology, and ordinary people to create a distinctive and timeless literary triumph.įor more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. Exploring themes of history, identity, and family, it sees the young Russian Nikolai Ableukhov chased through the misty Petersburg streets, tasked with planting a bomb intended to kill a government official-his own father. "The most important Russian novel of the 20th century."Ĭonsidered Andrei Bely's masterpiece, Petersburg, is a pioneering modernist novel, ranked in importance alongside Ulysses, The Metamorphosis, and In Search of Lost Time, that captures Russia's capital during the short, turbulent period of the first socialist revolution in 1905. ![]()
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