{"product_id":"9781612190716","title":"The Duel","description":"\u003cu\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cu\u003eAbout This Book\u003c\/u\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/u\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHer mourth was almost pressed against his, and her words were like  quick, hurried kisses: \"You must absolutely go through with the duel  tomorrow.\"\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis rediscovered gem by a major, yet neglected,  writer — here presented in a dazzling new translation — is an absorbing  account of the final days of Czarist Russia.\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cbr\u003eAn absorbing  saga about the brutalities of military life upon its own soldiers.  Stranded at a distant outpost, young Romashov finds himself obliged to  fight a duel — over something he realizes is meaningless. As the novel  hurtles toward a startling conclusion, it reveals itself to be a  luminous depiction of the end of an era.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cu\u003eThis Is An Enhanced eBook\u003c\/u\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e This eBook contains \u003cb\u003eIlluminations\u003c\/b\u003e—additional curated material that expand the world of Kuprin's novella through text and illustrations—at no additional charge. \u003cbr\u003e   \u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e\"Illuminations\" \u003c\/b\u003econtains writings by Leo Tolstoy - Fyodor Dostoevsky - Alexander Pushkin - Rudyard Kipling - Abraham Yarmolinsky - Ivan Turgenev - Anton Chekhov - Anton Chekhov - Mikhail Lermontov - Alexandre Dumas - Thomas Hardy - Emily Dickinson - Rudolphe Raspe - Emily Dickinson and short stories by O. Henry, Guy de Maupassant and Alexander Kuprin.\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e Illustrations include: Victor Adams - Etienne Prosper Berne-Bellecour - Valery Ivanovich Jacoby - Eugene Delacroix and others.\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e Also included is \u003cb\u003eThe Duelist’s Supplement – “The Other Duel: Fiction and Poetry Concerning Duels\u003c\/b\u003e”","brand":"Melville House Publishing","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47157437202672,"sku":"9781612190716","price":7.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781612190716_p0.jpg?v=1763843288","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781612190716","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}