{"product_id":"tales-of-belkin-book-alexander-pushkin-9781933633732","title":"Tales of Belkin","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eIvan Petrovich Belkin left behind a great number of manuscripts.... Most of them, as Ivan Petrovich told me, were true stories heard from various people.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cbr\u003e First published anonymously in 1830, Alexander Pushkin's \u003ci\u003eTales of Belkin\u003c\/i\u003e contains his first prose works. It is comprised of an introductory note and five linked stories, ostensibly collected by the scholar Ivan Belkin. The stories center variously around military figures, the wealthy, and businessmen; this beautiful novella gives a vivid portrait of nineteenth century Russian life.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e It has become, as well, one of the most beloved books in Russian literary history, and symbolic of the popularity of the novella form in Russia. In fact, it has become the namesake for Russia's most prestigious annual literary prize, the Belkin Prize, given each year to a book voted by judges to be the best novella of the year.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e It is presented here in a sparkling new translation by Josh Billings. \u003ci\u003eTales of Belkin\u003c\/i\u003e also highlights the nature of our ongoing Art of the Novella Series--that is, that it specializes in important although albeit lesser-known works by major writers, often in new tranlsations.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eThe Art of The Novella Series\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e Too short to be a novel, too long to be a short story, the novella is generally unrecognized by academics and publishers. Nonetheless, it is a form beloved and practiced by literature's greatest writers. In the Art Of The Novella series, Melville House celebrates this renegade art form and its practitioners with titles that are, in many instances, presented in book form for the first time.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49512023654673,"sku":"GOR002617064","price":10.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ GARDNERS","offer_id":49738202120465,"sku":"NGR9781933633732","price":14.29,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":51694628897041,"sku":"CIN1933633735G","price":4.46,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"GB \/ GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":53378353660177,"sku":"GOR005355514","price":11.63,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ VERY_GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":53739106795793,"sku":"CIN1933633735VG","price":4.46,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/1933633735.jpg?v=1751456446","url":"https:\/\/www.worldofbooks.com\/products\/tales-of-belkin-book-alexander-pushkin-9781933633732","provider":"World of Books ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}