โ Scribed by Alexander Pushkin
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
Pushkin's masterpieces in prose, in sparkling new translations by the award-winning Pevear and Volokhonsky.
The father of Russian literature, Pushkin is beloved not only for his poetry but also for his brilliant stories, which range from dramatic narratives of love, obsession and betrayal to lively comic tales, and from satirical epistolary tales to imaginative historical fiction. This volume includes all Pushkin's prose in brilliant new translations, including his masterpieces 'The Queen of Spades', 'The Tales of the Late Ivan Petrovich Belkin' and 'The Captain's Daughter'.
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