β Scribed by Alexander Pushkin
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
"The Queen of Spades" is one of the most famous tales in Russian literature, and inspired the eponymous opera by Tchaikovsky; in "The Stationmaster", from The Tales of the Late Ivan Petrovich Belkin, Pushkin reworks the parable of the Prodigal Son; "Tsar Nikita and his Forty Daughters" is one of Pushkin's bawdier early poems; and the narrative poem "The Bronze Horseman", inspired by a St Petersburg statue of Peter the Great, is one of Pushkin's best-known and most influential works. The volume also includes a selection of Pushkin's best lyric poetry.
Contents:
β’ Short Stories: The Queen of Spades; The Stationmaster
β’ Drama: Extracts from Boris Godunov and Mozart and Salieri
β’ The Bronze Horseman (narrative poem), Tsar Nikita and His Forty
Daughters (folk poem) and 14 lyric poems
β’ Novel in Verse: Extract from Yevgeny Onegin (novel in verse)
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