Peter the Great: His Life and WorldClassic · History, Biography, Nonfiction
Peter the Great: His Life and World
1980 · 909 pages · Nonfiction
66
Classic
★ 4.16 on Goodreads · 23K ratings
≈ 23 hours to read · about 7 weeks at 30 minutes a day
Is it worth reading?
Pulitzer Prize (Biography) winner (1981). 4.16★ from 23K Goodreads ratings.
By the numbers
66Must-Read Score
- Critics71 out of 100 · counts 35%+28
- Readers66 out of 100 · counts 50%+38
- Buzz0 out of 100 · counts 15%+0
Buzz rewards prizes and lists from the last few years, so older books start at zero.
Where it ranks
- #21 of the 207 memoirs and biographies we rank
- #33 of the 220 history books we rank
- #50 of the 296 classics we rank
- #128 of the 1,344 books we rank
Won
- Pulitzer Prize (Biography) winner (1981)
Shortlisted
- National Book Award (Nonfiction) finalist (1982)
Reads as
True story
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