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The Queen of Spades and Selected Works

By Alexander Pushkin
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The Queen of Spades is Pushkin's prose masterpiece, a gripping tale of avarice, obsession, madness, and cards. This wonderful collection also includes the keenly and sympathetically observed story The Stationmaster; the narrative poem The Bronze Horseman; a selection of Pushkin's lyric poems; the ribald saga of... Read More
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A young man plots to unearth a secret from an elderly countess-a secret he believes will win him a fortune.

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The Queen of Spades is Pushkin's prose masterpiece, a gripping tale of avarice, obsession, madness, and cards.

This wonderful collection also includes the keenly and sympathetically observed story The Stationmaster; the narrative poem The Bronze Horseman; a selection of Pushkin's lyric poems; the ribald saga of Tsar Nikita and his Forty Daughters; and excerpts from Yevgeny Onegin and Mozart and Salieri.

It serves as an ideal introduction to the incomparable Pushkin, the headspring of all Russian literature.

Contains:

Short Stories: The Queen of Spades; The Stationmaster

Drama: Extracts from Boris Godunov and Mozart and Salieri

The Bronze Horseman (narrative poem), Tsar Nikita and His Forty Daughters (folk poem) and 14 lyric poems.

Novel in Verse: Extract from Yevgeny Onegin (novel in verse)

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781805330936

Publisher: Pushkin Press

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 25 April 2024

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: Pushkin Press Classics

Contributors:

  • Translated by Anthony Briggs
  • Translated by Anthony Briggs

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Width: 129.0mm

Height: 198.0mm

Weight: 250g

Pages: 160

Collections

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About the Author

Alexander Pushkin (1799-1837) ranks as one of Russia's greatest writers. He published his first poem when he was fifteen, and in 1820 his first long poem-Ruslan and Lyudmila-made him famous. His work, including the short story The Queen of Spades, the novel-in-verse Yevgeny Onegin and the long poem The Bronze Horseman, has secured his place as one of the greatest writers ever to have lived. He died aged 37, having been wounded in a duel.

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