{"product_id":"9781906548438","title":"Petersburg","description":"\u003cp\u003eAndrei Bely's Russian novel \u003ci\u003ePetersburg\u003c\/i\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 translator's detail commentary, whic provides the necessary historical and literary context for understanding the novel, as well as a foreword by Olga Matich, acclaimed scholar and expert on Slavic literature.\u003c\/p\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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Steerforth Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47051219960048,"sku":"9781906548438","price":17.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781906548438_p0.jpg?v=1763616836","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781906548438","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}