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Bibliographic Detail
Publisher
Univ of Chicago Pr
Publication date
May 15, 2000
Binding
Paperback
Book category
Adult Non-Fiction
ISBN-13
9780226857718
ISBN-10
0226857719
Dimensions
1 by 6 by 9 in.
Weight
1.10 lbs.
Original list price
$23.00
Other format details
university press
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Summaries and Reviews
Amazon.com description: Product Description:
Pushkin's Button recreates the four months of Pushkin's life leading up to the fatal duel in the snow on January 27, 1837. Many theories have been advanced about the death of one of Russia's greatest artists, none of them wholly satisfactory. Serena Vitale has opened the archives and studies the case more closely, and more imaginatively, than anyone before her. Her brilliant detective work unearths fascinating, revealing details, including a button missing from Pushkin's Kamerjunker uniform.
"Pushkin's Button will keep all constituencies of reader fastened to their seats, as they watch Petersburg's lofty denizens leave no moment of the hurtling Pushkin scandal unrecorded or not speculated on."âMonika Greenleaf,Los Angeles Times
"[A] deliciously entertaining whydunit, a book in which every page seduces with a riddle. . . . Vivacious, seductive, original."âMichael Dirda, Washington Post
"A delightful combination of retrograde pleasures (court balls, the demise of a doomed genius) and primary sources. . . . Illuminating."âRichard Lamb, New York Times Book Review
"A book almost impossible to put down."âGeorge Steiner, New Yorker
"Pushkin's Button will keep all constituencies of reader fastened to their seats, as they watch Petersburg's lofty denizens leave no moment of the hurtling Pushkin scandal unrecorded or not speculated on."âMonika Greenleaf,Los Angeles Times
"[A] deliciously entertaining whydunit, a book in which every page seduces with a riddle. . . . Vivacious, seductive, original."âMichael Dirda, Washington Post
"A delightful combination of retrograde pleasures (court balls, the demise of a doomed genius) and primary sources. . . . Illuminating."âRichard Lamb, New York Times Book Review
"A book almost impossible to put down."âGeorge Steiner, New Yorker
Editions
Hardcover
from Farrar Straus & Giroux (March 1, 1999)
9780374239350 | details & prices | 355 pages | 6.25 × 9.50 × 1.25 in. | 1.40 lbs | List price $30.00
About: Traces the last four months of the revered Russian poet, Alexander Pushkin, who died from wounds received in a duel with a French officer
About: Traces the last four months of the revered Russian poet, Alexander Pushkin, who died from wounds received in a duel with a French officer
With Nancy Dunnan |
from Perennial (December 1, 1995); titled "Dun & Bradstreet Guide to $Your Investments$: 1996"
9780062715838 | details & prices | List price $35.00
This edition also contains Dun & Bradstreet Guide to $Your Investments$: 1996
This edition also contains Dun & Bradstreet Guide to $Your Investments$: 1996
Paperback
The price comparison is for this edition
from Univ of Chicago Pr (May 15, 2000)
9780226857718 | details & prices | 6.00 × 9.00 × 1.00 in. | 1.10 lbs | List price $23.00
About: Pushkin's Button recreates the four months of Pushkin's life leading up to the fatal duel in the snow on January 27, 1837.
About: Pushkin's Button recreates the four months of Pushkin's life leading up to the fatal duel in the snow on January 27, 1837.
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