{"product_id":"petersburg","title":"Petersburg","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAndrei Bely's novel \u003cem\u003ePetersburg\u003c\/em\u003e is considered one of the four greatest prose masterpieces of the 20th century. In this new edition of the best-selling translation, the reader will have access to the translators' detailed commentary, which provides the necessary historical and literary context for understanding the novel, as well as a foreword by Olga Matich, acclaimed scholar of Russian literature.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eSet in 1905 in St. Petersburg, a city in the throes of sociopolitical conflict, the novel follows university student Nikolai Apollonovich Ableukhov, who has gotten entangled with a revolutionary terrorist organization with plans to assassinate a government official–Nikolai's own father, Apollon Apollonovich Ableukhov. With a sprawling cast of characters, set against a nightmarish city, it is all at once a historical, political, philosophical, and darkly comedic novel.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n","brand":"Andrei Bely","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53614994227580,"sku":"9780253034113","price":16.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0251\/4980\/0541\/files\/9780253034113_682ead6b-e33c-4dc8-9b3e-a2d274fcf123.jpg?v=1726132806","url":"https:\/\/combined-academic.myshopify.com\/products\/petersburg","provider":"Combined Academic Publishers - Mare Nostrum Group","version":"1.0","type":"link"}