Andrei Bely.
Peterburg: Roman.
Chicago: Russian Language Specialties, 1967. Plain Literary Texts series. Rarity Reprints No. 1. Introduction by Georgette Donchin. vi/484 pages.
Hardcover volume, measuring approximately 6" x 8.75", displays shelfwear, with lightly bumped outside corners displaying minor loss of material. Binding is sound. Pages are clean and without markings. Title page is in Russian and English.
"The Text herein follows exactly the Petrograd edition of 1916."
Andrei Bely's novel Petersburg is considered one of the four greatest prose masterpieces of the 20th century. Set 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.