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by Michael Moorcock (Author)
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  • Paperback: 416 pages
  • Publisher: Fontana; n.e. edition (10 Oct 1985)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0006541380
  • ISBN-13: 978-0006541387
  • Average Customer Review: 4.9 out of 5 stars See all reviews (8 customer reviews)
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This is the first of the Pyat novels and begins at the dawn of the 20th century.The October Revolution overtakes his plans to storm "Society" and complete his sstudies... --This text refers to the Paperback edition.

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Long, wonderfully detailed, lovingly reconstructed picture of a particular society and an individual sensibility- puts Michael Moorcock straight into the front rank of contemporary English novelists' Robert Nye, Guardian --This text refers to the Paperback edition.

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5.0 out of 5 stars History at its most palatable, 2 Dec 2001
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This review is from: Byzantium Endures (Paperback)
Moorcock's reconstruction of pre-Revolutionary Russia, his descriptions of the Russian Civil War,
his extraordinary grasp of the crucial minutae of history make him, if nothing else, our leading historical novelist. This is a wonderful, comic, ironic, elegaic masterpiece. You'll fall in love with Pyat, in spite of yourself.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Brilliant recreation, astonishing moral grip and great plot, 8 Jul 2000
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Is Moorcock too big for the critics to see ? He has his champions in the press, I know, but quite simply nobody else is writing books as rich and complex as this -- nor as engrossing. This is fiction which seems to take in all previous fiction -- at least from Defoe onwards. It has elements of picaresque as well as the psychological novel -- and it reveals so much about the origins of our own present day political situation! I'm just on The Laughter of Carthage. The pace never flags. Don't be put off, as I originally was, by the size of these things -- they race like the wind! It's like discovering sex for the first time. You want to tell everyone how good it is. I feel an idiot for not discovering Moorcock earlier. Still, you'd probably need a lifetime to read the lot.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Another classic from Mike Moorcock, 19 Oct 2004
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I've been a huge fan of Mike Moorcock's fantasy work for 20+ years, especially the Elric and Von Bek series. This was the first of his historical works that I've read and I love it!

Byzantium Endures is told as a memoir and the old Pyatt is one of the most despicable characters ever written yet you'll find you love his naive, younger self. From my memory of doing this period of Russian history at school the setting, characters and events are perfect. It is a little slow to begin with (often a Moorcock fault) but once it gets going you won't be able to put it down.

I'm now desparate to read the rest of the series and find out how Pyatt changes from the naive, lovable young inventor into the despicable, racist old git.

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