books about: petersburg

books about: petersburg

books:

Petersburg

Ken Follett

NAL Trade, 2003

HISTORY & SUSPENSE
This is what I want in a novel! I learned quite a bit about a "slice" of history that I knew very little about before: primarily London just before WW1 and, to a lesser extent, a sample of heinous cruelty delegated by many of the Russian 'nobility' (1895). For readers ...

St Petersburg (City Guide)
Mara Vorhees

Lonely Planet, 2008

Discover St Petersburg Unearth the connection between an Italian architect and a famous beef dish at the Stroganov Palace Plug into St Petersburg's avant-garde art and music scene in a former squat Beat a total stranger with birch branches at the local banya Join the newlyweds for champagne and dancing in the shadow of the Bronze Horseman In ...

A Vengeful Longing: A Novel (St. Petersburg Mysteries)

R. N. Morris

Penguin Press HC, The, 2008

"An investigator...needs to be capable of looking into his own heart."
It is June, 1868, in St. Petersburg, Russia. Pavel Pavlovich Virginsky, who had been an impoverished and emaciated student living on the edge in R. N. Morris's debut novel, "The Gentle Axe," has put on weight and dresses respectably now. He is a university graduate ...

Petersburg

Andrei Bely

Indiana University Press, 1979

Worth the less than ideal translation
Nabokov, the translator's introduction triumphantly proclaims, thought Petersburg one the three best books ever written, beside Joyce's Ulysses and Kafka's Metamorphosis. Nabokov, they do not emphasize quite as proudly, was also a native Russian, so he might have had ...

Crime and Punishment (Signet Classics)

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Signet Classics, 2006

A Hard Read
This book is excellent but readers should take the time to read the Translator's Preface before jumping in. This will help to understand the names of the characters and other nuances that apply to a book translated from another language. The book is about redemption. ...

The Bronze Horseman

Paullina Simons

HarperTorch, 2002

A True Keeper!
Sweeping, heartbreaking, and just plain old romantic- this story ranks among my all time favorites. TBH starts out in Leningrad, Russia the very day war is declared on Germany during WW2. The story covers two years, thru the siege of Leningrad and subsequent ...

Fodor's Moscow and St. Petersburg, 8th Edition (Fodor's Gold Guides)
Fodor's

Fodor's, 2008

Fodor’s. For Choice Travel Experiences. Fodor’s helps you unleash the possibilities of travel by providing the insightful tools you need to experience the trips you want. Although you’re at the helm, Fodor’s offers the assurance of our expertise, the guarantee of selectivity, and the choice details that truly define a ...

St. Petersburg: Architecture of the Tsars

Dmitri O. Shvidkovsky

Abbeville Press, 1996

Worth Every Penny
This can be an expensive book if you're not buying it used, but it's absolutely worth it. The beautiful pictures are excellent at presenting St. Petersburg's amazing architectural wonders. The text is well-written, and even if you don't have a great deal of knowledge ...

The 900 Days: The Siege Of Leningrad

Harrison Salisbury

Da Capo Press, 2003

Superb example of how history should be written
Salisbury gave us a monumental work of history: not just in scope, but in depth. This is a book which entwines the epic story with the human story, basing both on the kind of scholarship too few writers are dedicated enough to accomplish. I wrote a well-received ...

Crime and Punishment

Fyodor Dostoevsky

Vintage, 1993

Crime and Punishment
What can I say that hasn't been said already? This is probably the best fictional study of the effects of guilt and radical ideas on a troubled mind. The prose is flowing, and it's not hard to see why Dostoevsky considered his novels "poems". Dostoevsky's works in ...

The Last Citadel: Petersburg, Virginia, June 1864-April 1865

Noah Andre Trudeau

Louisiana State University Press, 1993

A Very Good Treatment of the Petersburg Campaign
Many Civil War histories cover the Petersburg Campaign in a fell swoop of attrition warfare, privation among the defenders and inhabitants of Petersburg and Grant's slow and methodical picking of Lee's lock hold on this strategic Southern transportation hub. Trudeau ...

St. Petersburg
Colin Amery, Brian Curran

Frances Lincoln, 2006

This lavishly illustrated book tells the epic 300- story of St. Petersburg through its architecture, literature, music and art, from the city's origins and its earliest buildings through to the present day.

Nikolai Gogol Plays And Petersburg Tales
Nikolai Gogol

Oxford University Press, USA, 1999

This volume brings together Gogol's Petersburg Tales with his two most famous plays, all of which guide us through the streets of St. Petersburg, the city erected by force and ingenuity on the marshes of the Neva estuary. Something of the deception and violence of the city's creation seems to lurk beneath its harmonious facade, however, and it ...

Top 10 St. Petersburg (EYEWITNESS TOP 10 TRAVEL GUIDE)
DK Publishing

DK Travel, 2008

Drawing on the same standards of accuracy as the acclaimed DK Eyewitness Travel Guides, The DK Top 10 Guides use exciting colorful photography and excellent cartography to provide a reliable and useful pocket-sized travel. Dozens of Top 10 lists provide vital information on each destination, as well as insider tips, from avoiding the crowds to ...

City of Thieves: A Novel

David Benioff

Penguin Audio, 2008

Perfection
Set aside some time for this book; you'll want to read it straight through to the end. A fast-moving adventure story with believable characters, it includes all of the elements that I love in a book: a backdrop of an actual time in history, excitement, danger, true ...