This collection of Pushkin’s stories begins with ‘The Queen of Spades’, perhaps the most celebrated short story in Russian literature. The young Hermann, while watching some friends gambling, hears a rumour of how an officer’s grandmother is always able to predict the three winning cards in a game. He becomes obsessed with the woman and her seemingly mystical powers, and seeks to extract the secret from her at any cost.
This volume, part of a new series of the complete works of Pushkin in English, also includes ‘Dubrovsky’, the story of a man’s desire to avenge himself after his land is unjustly taken from him by an aristocrat; ‘The Negro of Peter the Great’, a tale inspired by Pushkin’s maternal grandfather; and the unfinished story ‘Egyptian Nights’, a meditation on poetry and the poet. Together, they represent some of the most striking and enduring pieces of Pushkin’s prose fiction.
By:
Alexander Pushkin
Translated by:
Paul Debreczeny
Imprint: Alma Edizioni
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions:
Height: 198mm,
Width: 128mm,
Weight: 410g
ISBN: 9781847494788
ISBN 10: 1847494781
Pages: 352
Publication Date: 01 August 2017
Audience:
General/trade
,
ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
Contains 'The Queen of Spades', 'Kirdzhali', 'The Negro of Peter the Great', 'The Guests Were Arriving at the Dacha...', 'A Novel in Letters', 'Notes of a Young Man', 'My Fate Is Sealed: I Am Getting Married', 'A Fragment', 'In the Corner of a SmallSquare', 'Roslavlev', 'A Novel at a Caucasian Spa', 'Dubrovsky', 'A Tale of Roman life', 'Maria Schoning', 'A Russian Pelham', 'We Were Spending the Evening at Princess D.'s Dacha', 'Egyptian Nights', 'In 179- I was Returning', 'The Last of the Lineage of Joan of Arc'. Includes a foreword by Professor John Bayley, University of Oxford and an introduction by PaulDebreczeny, University of North Carolina
Alexander Pushkin (1799--1837) was a novelist, dramatist and poet, penning such influential works as Eugene Onegin and Boris Godunov. He is now considered the father of modern Russian literature.