شهر پنهان، هیو والپول، ۱۹۱۹

New York: George H. Doran Company, 1919. — 385 p. Written by an English writer living in Russia in at the time of the Russian Revolution, the novel wonderfully depicts gentry life in St.Petersburg (Petrograd) as the Revolution approaches and then unfolds in its earliest days. His familiarity with the ethos of the city, its topography, its mythic qualities are impressive, as is his knowledge of Russian expressions. The style and content could place the novel in the tradition of Tostoy and Turg...