This volume contains new translations of four of Pushkinβs best works of fiction.*The Queen of Spades*has long been acknowledged as one of the worldβs greatest short stories, in which Pushkin explores the nature of obsession.*The Tales of Belkin*are witty parodies of sentimentalism, while*Peter the
The Queen of Spades and Other Stories
β Scribed by Pushkin, Alexander
- Book ID
- 109216087
- Publisher
- Penguin Group USA, Inc.
- Year
- 2010
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 290 KB
- Series
- Penguin Classics
- Category
- Fiction
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
β¦ Synopsis
Known as Russia's greatest poet, Pushkin was equally at ease working in other literary forms. The prose collected here includes The Captain's Daughter," which chronicles the Pugachev Rebellion of 1770, "The Negro of Peter the Great," and "Dubrovsky."
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"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 Pus