The silver dove

Andrey Bely

Original title: Серебряный голубь

Translated by George Reavey first published 1922 Grove Press : distributed by Random House, 1974 419 pages

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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 style make it accessible to the Western reader. Dissatisfied with the life of the intelligentsia, the poet Daryalsky joins a rural mystic sect, the Silver Doves. The locals,...

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This book in English

George Reavey 1 printing we hold · 1974 · Grove Press : distributed by Random House
John Elsworth 1 printing we hold · 2000 · Northwestern University Press

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The silver dove paperback · 2000 · Northwestern University Press · 316 pages
The silver dove edition · 2000 · Angel Books · 316 pages
Serebri︠a︡nyĭ golubʹ edition · 1989 · "Khudozh. lit-ra" · 461 pages
The Silver Dove edition · 1974 · Grove Press : distributed by Random House · 419 pages
The silver dove edition · 1974 · Grove Press ; distributed by Random House · 419 pages

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