Collected Stories The (Everymans Library CLASSICS)

The new expanded Everyman edition of Pushkins prose fiction contains all his mature work. In addition to The Captains Daughter and The Tales of Belkin the volume now includes many more short pieces and The History of Pugachev a vivid account of an eighteenth-century Russian rebellion. Pushkins prose tales are the foundation stones of Russian literature. They made possible the great achievements of Dostosvsky Tolstoy and Chekhov. But they are also of course brilliant and fascinating in their own right. At this volume makes clear Pushkins is one of the worlds great story-tellers direct dramatic tender with the author s voices always peruasively present. Paul Debrecenys highly acclaimed translation was first published in 1983. The Everyman edition is published to coincide with the Bicentenary of Pushkins birth on 26th May 1999.