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Pushkin: A biography
T.J. Binyon (HarperCollins)
Pushkin is, indisputably, Russia’s greatest poet.
His vital, passionate poetry changed literature forever.
Binyon’s biography is the first full length and authoritative
account of Pushkin’s life and times since 1937, and
it bristles with the poet’s energy and talent. In these
pages
Pushkin the poet lives again, and captures our hearts once
more. Binyon tells us his story with perfectly-judged pace,
elegant wit, exacting scholarship and deep compassion.
After reading Modern Languages at Oxford, T.J.Binyon spent
some time in the Soviet Union and taught at Leeds University
before returning to Oxford, where he lectures on Russian
literature. He is Senior Research Fellow at Wadham College.
He lives in Oxford.
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