Andrei Bely

• Apr-1996
• / General Fiction

Set in Saint Petersburg during the Revolution of 1905, this classic of Russian literature draws comparisons to James Joyce’s Ulysses for its display of symbolism and humor   After enlisting in a revolutionary terrorist organization, the univer...

• Jun-1999
• / General Fiction

One of the most important works of twentieth-century Russian prose, Kotik Letaev, the great symbolist novel of childhood, depicts the emergence of consciousness and its development into self-consciousness in a Russian boy growing up among the Moscow ...

• Jul-2001
• / Literary

The Silver Dove, published four years before Bely's masterpiece Petersburg, is considered the first modern Russian novel. Breaking with Russian realism, and a pioneering Symbolist work, its vividly drawn characters, elemental landscapes, and rich sty...

• Dec-2016
• / General Fiction

THIS UNDERAPPRECIATED GEM OF A NOVEL by one of Russia’s finest writers explores some of the thorniest issues of the early twentieth century. An absent-minded professor and a glamorous yet bumbling spy struggle over a powerful secret formula in this...

• Nov-2021
• / General Fiction

Andrei Bely is best known for the modernist masterwork Petersburg, a paradigmatic example of how modern writers strove to evoke the fragmentation of language, narrative, and consciousness. In the early twentieth century, Bely embarked on his life as ...

• May-2025
• / Literary

This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning...