The Queen of Spades and Other Stories

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Alexander Pushkin Andrew Kahn (Fellow and Tutor in Russian, St Edmund Hall, and University Lecturer in Russian, Fellow and Tutor in Russian, St Edmund Hall, and University Lecturer in Russian, University of Oxford)

The Queen of Spades and Other Stories

Alexander Pushkin, Andrew Kahn (Fellow and Tutor in Russian, St Edmund Hall, and University Lecturer in Russian, Fellow and Tutor in Russian, St Edmund Hall, and University Lecturer in Russian, University of Oxford), Alan Myers

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Worlds Classics
10 January 2009

Literature, Poetry & Criticism; Classic fiction (pre c 1945); Short stories; Fiction in translation

Series: Oxford World's Classics

The Queen of Spades has long been acknowledged as one of the world's greatest short stories. In this classic literary representation of gambling, Alexander Pushkin explores the nature of obsession. Hints of the occult and gothic alternate with scenes of St Petersburg high-society in the story of the passionate Hermann's quest to master chance and make his fortune at the card-table. Underlying the taut plot is an ironical treatment of the romantic dreamer and social outcast.

This volume contains three other major works of Pushkin's fiction, moving from the witty parodies of sentimentalism and high melodrama in The Tales of Belkin to an early experiment with recreating the past in Peter the Great's Blackamoor. It concludes with the novel-length masterpiece The Captain's Daughter, which combines historical fiction in the manner of Sir Walter Scott with the colour and devices of the Russian fairy-tale in a narrative of rebellion and romance.

These new translations, as well as being meticulously faithful to the original, do full justice to the elegance and fluency of Pushkin's prose. The Introduction provides insightful readings of the stories and places them in their European literary context. A chronology of the Pugachov Uprising illuminates the events in The Captain's Daughter.

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By: Alexander Pushkin
Edited by: Andrew Kahn (Fellow and Tutor in Russian St Edmund Hall and University Lecturer in Russian Fellow and Tutor in Russian St Edmund Hall and University Lecturer in Russian University of Oxford)
Translated by: Alan Myers
Imprint: Worlds Classics
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 196mm, Width: 128mm, Spine: 14mm
Weight: 234g
ISBN: 9780199538652
ISBN 10: 0199538654
Series: Oxford World's Classics
Pages: 336
Publication Date: 10 January 2009
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Reviews for The Queen of Spades and Other Stories

`He is a great story-teller, the Toby Litt of his day, you might say, and this translation knocks all the others I have seen (two) into a cocked hat. Terrific.' Nicholas Lezard, The Guardian `The Queen of Spades is surely Pushkin's prose masterpiece, one of the greatest short stories ever written and the source of Tchaikovsky's opera.' The Irish Times (Dublin)