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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 Pushkin’s bawdier early poems; and the narrative poem The Bronze Horseman, inspired by a St Petersburg statue of Peter the Great, is one of Pushkin’s best-known and most influential works. The volume also includes a selection of Pushkin’s best lyric poetry.

Contents:
• Short Stories: The Queen of Spades; The Stationmaster
• Drama: Extracts from Boris Godunov and Mozart and Salieri
• The Bronze Horseman (narrative poem), Tsar Nikita and His Forty
Daughters (folk poem) and 14 lyric poems
• Novel in Verse: Extract from Yevgeny Onegin (novel in verse)

Pushkin Collection editions feature a spare, elegant

The Queen of Spades and Selected Works

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    Publisher: Pushkin Press
    Publication Date: 4/25/2024
    ISBN13: 9781805330936, 978-1805330936
    ISBN10: 1805330934

    Fiction , Classics

    Description

    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 Pushkin’s bawdier early poems; and the narrative poem The Bronze Horseman, inspired by a St Petersburg statue of Peter the Great, is one of Pushkin’s best-known and most influential works. The volume also includes a selection of Pushkin’s best lyric poetry.

    Contents:
    • Short Stories: The Queen of Spades; The Stationmaster
    • Drama: Extracts from Boris Godunov and Mozart and Salieri
    • The Bronze Horseman (narrative poem), Tsar Nikita and His Forty
    Daughters (folk poem) and 14 lyric poems
    • Novel in Verse: Extract from Yevgeny Onegin (novel in verse)

    Pushkin Collection editions feature a spare, elegant

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