{"product_id":"petersburg-tales-new-translation","title":"Petersburg Tales: New Translation","description":"Written in the 1830s and early 1840s, these comic stories tackle life behind the cold and elegant façade of the Imperial capital from the viewpoints of various characters, such as a collegiate assessor who one day finds that his nose has detached itself from his face and risen the ranks to become a state councillor (‘The Nose’), a painter and a lieutenant whose romantic pursuits meet with contrasting degrees of success (‘Nevsky Prospect’) and a lowly civil servant whose existence desperately unravels when he loses his prized new coat (‘The Overcoat’).\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAlso including the ‘Diary of Madman’, these Petersburg Tales paint a critical yet hilarious portrait of a city riddled with pomposity and self-importance, masterfully juxtaposing nineteenth-century realism with madcap surrealism, and combining absurdist farce with biting satire.","brand":"Alma Books Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51447910269275,"sku":"9781847493491","price":13.95,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/suomalainen-test.myshopify.com\/products\/petersburg-tales-new-translation","provider":"Suomalainen Test","version":"1.0","type":"link"}