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The Queen Of Spades And Selected Works
The Queen of Spades and Selected Works is a brand new English translation of two of Alexander Pushkin's greatest short stories 'The Queen of Spades' and 'The Stationmaster' together with the poem 'The Bronze Horseman' extracts from Yevgeny Onegin and Boris Godunov and a selection of his poetic work'The Queen of Spades' ('Pikovaya dama') originally published in Russian in 1834 is one of the most famous tales in Russian literature and inspired the eponymous opera by Tchaikovsky; in 'The Stationmaster' ('Stantsionnyy smotritel'') originally published in Russian in The Tales of the Late Ivan Petrovich Belkin (Povesti pokoynogo Ivana Petrovicha Belkina) in 1830 he reworks the parable of the Prodigal Son; the hugely entertaining 'Tsar Nikita and his Forty Daughters' is a bawdier early poem; and
the deeply moving narrative poem 'The Bronze Horseman' inspired by a St Petersburg statue of Peter the Great is one of his most influential works The volume also includes a selection of his best lyric poetryTranslated by Anthony Briggs The Queen of Spades and Selected Works is the perfect introduction to Alexander Pushkin's finest work Contents'The Queen of Spades''The Stationmaster'Extract from Boris GodunovExtract fromMozart and Salieri'The Bronze Horseman''Tsar Nikita and His Forty Daughters'Extract from Yevgeny OneginFourteen lyric poemsAlexander Sergeyevich Pushkin ranks as one of Russia's greatest writers Born in 1799 he published his first poem when he was a teenager and attained fame in 1820 with his first long poem Ruslan and Lyudmila In the late 1820s he found himself the target
of government censors unable to travel or publish at will; during this time he wrote his most famous play Boris Godunov and Yevgeny Onegin (published 1825-1832) 'The Queen of Spades' his most famous prose work was published in 1834; his best-known poem 'The Bronze Horseman' appeared after his death (from a wound sustained in a duel) in 1837Anthony Briggs is one of the world's leading authorities on the work of Pushkin author of Alexander Pushkin A Critical Study and editor of Alexander Pushkin A Celebration of Russia's Best-Loved Writer He is also an acclaimed translator from the Russian whose translations include War and Peace The Death of Ivan Ilyich and Resurrection by Leo Tolstoy
the deeply moving narrative poem 'The Bronze Horseman' inspired by a St Petersburg statue of Peter the Great is one of his most influential works The volume also includes a selection of his best lyric poetryTranslated by Anthony Briggs The Queen of Spades and Selected Works is the perfect introduction to Alexander Pushkin's finest work Contents'The Queen of Spades''The Stationmaster'Extract from Boris GodunovExtract fromMozart and Salieri'The Bronze Horseman''Tsar Nikita and His Forty Daughters'Extract from Yevgeny OneginFourteen lyric poemsAlexander Sergeyevich Pushkin ranks as one of Russia's greatest writers Born in 1799 he published his first poem when he was a teenager and attained fame in 1820 with his first long poem Ruslan and Lyudmila In the late 1820s he found himself the target
of government censors unable to travel or publish at will; during this time he wrote his most famous play Boris Godunov and Yevgeny Onegin (published 1825-1832) 'The Queen of Spades' his most famous prose work was published in 1834; his best-known poem 'The Bronze Horseman' appeared after his death (from a wound sustained in a duel) in 1837Anthony Briggs is one of the world's leading authorities on the work of Pushkin author of Alexander Pushkin A Critical Study and editor of Alexander Pushkin A Celebration of Russia's Best-Loved Writer He is also an acclaimed translator from the Russian whose translations include War and Peace The Death of Ivan Ilyich and Resurrection by Leo Tolstoy
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