The Queen of Spades & Selected Works is a brand new English translation of two of Alexander Pushkin`s greatest short stories, ` The Queen of Spades` & ` The Stationmaster`, together with the poem ` The Bronze Horseman`, extracts from Yevgeny Onegin & Boris Godunov, & 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, & 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 & his Forty Daughters` is a bawdier early poem; & 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 poetry. Translated by Anthony Briggs, The Queen of Spades & Selected Works is the perfect introduction to Alexander Pushkin`s finest work. Contents: *` The Queen of Spades`*` The Stationmaster`* Extract from Boris Godunov* Extract from Mozart & Salieri*` The Bronze Horseman`*` Tsar Nikita & His Forty Daughters`* Extract from Yevgeny Onegin* Fourteen lyric poems Alexander Sergeyevich Pushkin ranks as one of Russia`s greatest writers. Born in 1799, he published his first poem when he was a teenager, & attained fame in 1820 with his first long poem, Ruslan & 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, & 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 1837. Anthony Briggs is one of the world`s leading authorities on the work of Pushkin, author of Alexander Pushkin: A Critical Study & 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 & Peace, The Death of Ivan Ilyich & Resurrection by Leo Tolstoy.