Peter the Great - Hardcover

Massie, Robert K.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0517064839 ISBN 13: 9780517064832

Publisher: Random House Value Publishing, 1993

Synopsis

"Enthralling . . . As fascinating as any novel and more so than most." The New York Times Book Review
The Pulitzer Prize-Winning Bestseller by the author of DREADNOUGHT.
Against the monumental canvas of seventeenth- and eighteenth-century Europe and Russia unfolds the magnificent story of Peter the Great, one of the most extraordinary rulers in history. Impetuous and stubborn, generous and cruel, tender and unforgiving, a man of enormous energy and complexity, Peter the Great is brought fully to life in this exceptional biography.
From the Trade Paperback edition.

About this title

About the Author:

Robert K. Massie was born in Lexington, Kentucky, in 1929. He studied American history at Yale University and modern European history at Oxford University, which he attended as a Rhodes scholar. Peter the Great won the Pulitzer Prize for Biography in 1981.

Review:

“Enthralling . . . as fascinating as any novel and more so than most.”—The New York Times Book Review

“Urgently readable . . . the work of a master of narrative history.”—Newsweek

“Written in a style that combines vigor, clarity, and sensitivity . . . should be the envy of historians and novelists alike.”—Chicago Sun-Times
 
“Fascinating . . . an absorbing book.”—The Plain Dealer
 
“Exceptional.”—The New Yorker

About this edition

• Publisher: Random House Value Publishing
• Publication date: 1993
• ISBN 10: 0517064839
• ISBN 13: 9780517064832
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 909