The Queen of Spades and Selected Works (Pushkin Collection)

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 fromBoris Godunov andMozart and Salieri• The Bronze Horseman (narrative poem) Tsar Nikita and His FortyDaughters (folk poem) and 14 lyric poems• Novel in Verse: Extract fromYevgeny Onegin (novel in verse)Pushkin Collection editions feature a spare elegant series style and superior durable components. The Collection is typeset in Monotype Baskerville litho-printed on Munken Premium White Paper and notch-bound by the independently owned printer TJ International in Padstow. The covers with French flaps are printed on Colorplan Pristine White Paper. Both paper and cover board are acid-free and Forest Stewardship Council (FSC) certified. Review As with all Pushkin books it is a thing of beauty and its contents are worth turning to again and again Nick Lezard Guardian Charming - an ideal introduction to the man widely regarded as the greatest Russian writer - Poetry is notoriously hard to translate but Anthony Briggss skilful rendering of colloquial speech is faithful to the spirit of the Russian text Phoebe Taplin Russia Now About the Author Alexander 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 poemRuslan 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 playBoris Godunov and Eugene 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.