{"product_id":"2026100007133-secondhand-pushkin-a-biography","title":"Pushkin: A Biography","description":"\u003cp\u003eEdition: 1st uk ed.,\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition remarks:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBook: Good\u003cbr\u003eJacket: Worn\/faded, no tears\u003cbr\u003ePages: Tanning and foxing\u003cbr\u003eCondition remarks: Some marks and specks on blue cloth. Binding remains tight. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFrom the shadow of imperial Russia emerges one of literature's most dazzling and tragic figures — Alexander Pushkin, the poet who gave the Russian language its modern soul. Henri Troyat's Pushkin: A Biography chronicles the short, explosive life of Russia's greatest literary genius, tracing his path from the salons of St. Petersburg to the fatal duelling ground that silenced him at just 37. Translated into English by Randolph T. Weaver, this meticulously researched portrait presents Pushkin not merely as a literary icon but as a flesh-and-blood man — passionate, reckless, politically defiant, and ceaselessly creative — set against the opulent and oppressive backdrop of Tsarist Russia.\n\nTroyat, himself a celebrated biographer of Russian luminaries, brings to bear his signature narrative sweep and psychological acuity, weaving archival detail into prose of rare elegance. The biography illuminates the paradoxes at the heart of Pushkin's genius: a man persecuted by the very empire whose language he immortalised, a revolutionary spirit trapped in the gilded cage of aristocratic society. As Alexander Blok's haunting epigraph reminds us — the somber names of emperors and captains, inventors of engines of death, executioners, and martyrs; Pushkin — this is a life that burned brighter than the darkness surrounding it. What does it cost a nation to destroy its own greatest voice?\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Secondhand Stock","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49130942759131,"sku":"2026100007133-SECONDHAND","price":40.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0523\/7646\/9701\/files\/1f999074-cecc-45a1-b78a-63b98a829d11.png?v=1786592999","url":"https:\/\/bookgrocer.com\/products\/2026100007133-secondhand-pushkin-a-biography","provider":"Book Grocer","version":"1.0","type":"link"}