{"product_id":"serena-vitale-pushkins-button-2000-paperback","title":"Serena Vitale: Pushkin's Button [2000] paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe dramatic true story of the love affair between Russia's greatest poet, his wife and her lover, french hussar George d'Anthes - and the tragic duel that followed.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e          \u003cp\u003ePushkin's Button is an astonishing tour de force, a riveting account of the last few months of Pushkin's life before his death on 27 January 1837.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e          \u003cp\u003eIt is also the story of the French soldier who killed him, Georges d'Anthes, a man in love with Natalya Pushkin, the poet's wife, the most beautiful woman in all St Petersburg. Vitale's extensive archival detective work has unearthed a mass of fascinating written material about this famous love triangle - journals, letters, scraps of gossip by those in their circle - that brings the indulgent world of 1830s St Petersburg, with its salons and imperial balls, vividly into focus.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e          \u003cp\u003eSparkling throughout with Pushkin's own genial wit, Serena Vitale's book is, as George Steiner says, 'almost impossible to put down'.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Vitale, Serena \u0026 Goldstein, Ann","offers":[{"title":"Good","offer_id":52145711022419,"sku":"XG81857029376","price":5.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true},{"title":"New","offer_id":52145711055187,"sku":"9781857029376","price":9.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0616\/4001\/6057\/files\/vitale-serena-goldstein-ann-serena-vitale-pushkin-s-button-2000-paperback-1198465617.jpg?v=1760815771","url":"https:\/\/theirishbookshop.live\/products\/serena-vitale-pushkins-button-2000-paperback","provider":"Chapters Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}