Petersburg by Andrei Bely

Petersburg is the title of Andrei Bely's masterpiece, a Symbolist work that foreshadows Joyce's Modernist ambitions. For various reasons the novel never received much attention and was not translated into English until 1959 by John Cournos, over 45 years after it was written, after Joyce was already established as an important writer.

The 1971st greatest fiction book of all time


This book is on the following lists:

  1. - 3rd on Greatest Prose Works of the 20th Century (Vladimir Nabokov)
  2. - 54th on The Novel 100: A Ranking of the Greatest Novels of All Time (The Novel 100)

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Petersburg (Russian Institute / Columbia University. Sources and translation series) Hardcover 3248700 $39.07
Petersburg Paperback 2449737 $64.81 $44.99 2009
Petersburg (Penguin Twentieth-Century Classics) Mass Market Paperback 2638774 $153.78 $4.87 1996
Petersburg Kindle Edition 351164 $7.89 2010
Petersburg Kindle Edition 421969 $11.99 2010
Petersburg (Penguin Classics) Kindle Edition 446565 $9.99 2011
Petersburg Paperback 1559367 $41.75 $1.93 1979
Petersburg Paperback 1349915 $14.99 $10.50 2018
Petersburg (Penguin Classics) Paperback 937107 $12.40 $5.16 2012
Petersburg (Russian Classics) (in Russian) (Russian Edition) Mass Market Paperback 3074137 $43.99 $8.42 1994
Petersburg Paperback 835295 $13.24 $6.67 2009