The Queen of Spades and Selected Works
Description
<b> 'Pushkin is an extraordinary phenomenon and, possibly, the only manifestation of the Russian spirit' Nikolai Gogol</b>
<b> The selected works of one of Russia's greatest writers, including 'The Queen of Spades', 'The Stationmaster' and a selection of Pushkin's best poetic work</b>
A young man plots to unearth a secret from an elderly countess - a secret he believes will win him a fortune. 'The Queen of Spades' is Pushkin's prose masterpiece, a gripping tale of avarice, obsession, madness and cards.
This wonderful collection also includes the keenly and sympathetically observed story 'The Stationmaster'; the narrative poem 'The Bronze Horseman'; a selection of Pushkin's lyric poems; the ribald saga of 'Tsar Nikita and his Forty Daughters'; and excerpts from <i>Yevgeny Onegin</i> and <i>Mozart and Salieri</i>. It serves as an ideal introduction to the incomparable Pushkin, the headspring of all Russian literature.
<b>Part of the Pushkin Press Classics series: timeless storytelling by icons of literature, hand-picked from around the globe.</b>
<b>Translated by Anthony Briggs.</b>
Alexander Pushkin (1799-1837) ranks as one of Russia's greatest writers. He published his first poem when he was fifteen, and in 1820 his first long poem-Ruslan and Lyudmila-made him famous. His work, including the short story 'The Queen of Spades', the novel-in-verse <i>Yevgeny Onegin</i> and the long poem 'The Bronze Horseman', has secured his place as one of the greatest writers ever to have lived. He died aged 37, having been wounded in a duel.