{"product_id":"pushkin-a-biography-9781400076529","title":"Pushkin: A Biography","description":"In the course of his short, dramatic life, Aleksandr Pushkin gave Russia not only its greatest poetry-including the novel-in-verse \u003cb\u003eEugene Onegin\u003c\/b\u003e-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.\u003cbr\u003eIn his magnificent, prizewinning \u003cb\u003ePushkin\u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003e, \u003c\/i\u003eT. 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, \u003cb\u003ePushkin\u003c\/b\u003e elevates biography to a work of art.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eT. J. Binyon lectures on Russian literature at Oxford University and is a senior research fellow at Wadham College. He is also the author of \u003ci\u003eMurder Will Out, \u003c\/i\u003e a history of the fictional detective, and two thrillers, \u003ci\u003eSwan Song\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eGreek Gifts\u003c\/i\u003e. He lives with his wife in Oxfordshire, England.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50334375018770,"sku":"9781400076529","price":18.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_88a58151-347c-47a1-a09f-f97f0fa52fc8.jpg?v=1727888728","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/pushkin-a-biography-9781400076529","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}