The Confessions of Lord Byron: A Collection of His Private Opinions of Men and of Matters, Taken ...

A masterclass in storytelling and a founding text of the 19th-century Russian novel, The Daughter Of The Commandant is high art at its most effortless. Less than two months after publishing it, Pushkin, impulsive to the end, died of his wounds two days after that infamous duel. -The Irish Times -