The Queen of Spades and Other Stories
Author(s): Alexander Pushkin
This collection of Pushkin's shorter fiction begins with The Queen of Spades, perhaps the most celebrated short story in Russian literature. The young Hermann, while watching some friends gambling, hears a rumour of how an officer's grandmother is always able to predict the three winning cards in a game. Hermann gradually becomes obsessed with the old woman and her seemingly mystical powers, and seeks to extract the secret from her at any cost. Contains a number of lesser-known works by Pushkin which are not easily available in English, including the novel Dubrovsky and the stories Egyptian Nights and Peter the Great's Negro.
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Alexander Pushkin (1799--1837) was a novelist, dramatist and poet, penning such influential works as Eugene Onegin and Boris Godunov. He is now considered the father of modern Russian literature.
Contains 'The Queen of Spades', 'Kirdzhali', 'The Negro of Peter the Great', 'The Guests Were Arriving at the Dacha...', 'A Novel in Letters', 'Notes of a Young Man', 'My Fate Is Sealed: I Am Getting Married', 'A Fragment', 'In the Corner of a SmallSquare', 'Roslavlev', 'A Novel at a Caucasian Spa', 'Dubrovsky', 'A Tale of Roman life', 'Maria Schoning', 'A Russian Pelham', 'We Were Spending the Evening at Princess D.'s Dacha', 'Egyptian Nights', 'In 179- I was Returning', 'The Last of the Lineage of Joan of Arc'. Includes a foreword by Professor John Bayley, University of Oxford and an introduction by PaulDebreczeny, University of North Carolina
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- : Alma Books Ltd
- : Alma Classics
- : 0.413223
- : 15 November 2015
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- : United Kingdom
- : books
Special Fields
- : Alexander Pushkin
- : Paperback
- : en
- : 891.733
- : 352
