Pushkin, A.S.

The Queen of Spades and Other Stories

New York: Oxford University Press, 2009.

New book.

Item #4150
ISBN: 9780199538652

Paperback
336 pp.

This volume contains new translations of four of Pushkin's best works of fiction. The Queen of Spades has long been acknowledged as one of the world's greatest short stories, in which Pushkin explores the nature of obsession. The Tales of Belkin are witty parodies of sentimentalism, while
Peter the Great's Blackamoor is an early experiment with recreating the past. The Captain's Daughter is a novel-length masterpiece which combines historical fiction in the manner of Sir Walter Scott with the devices of the Russian fairy-tale. The Introduction provides close readings of the stories
and places them in their European literary context.

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