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This collection of Pushkin’s stories begins with ‘The Queen of Spades’, perhaps the most celebrated short story in Russian literature. The young Hermann, while watching some friends gambling, hears a rumour of how an officer’s grandmother is always able to predict the three winning cards in a game. He becomes obsessed with the woman and her seemingly mystical powers, and seeks to extract the secret from her at any cost. This volume, part of a new series of the complete works of Pushkin in...
| Автор | Pushkin Alexander |
| Год | 2021 |
Introducing Little Clothbound Classics: irresistible, mini editions of short stories, novellas and essays from the world's greatest writers, designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith. Celebrating the range and diversity of Penguin Classics, they take us from snowy Japan to springtime Vienna, from haunted New England to a sun-drenched Mediterranean island, and from a game of chess on the ocean to a love story on the moon. Beautifully designed and printed, these collectible...
| Автор | Pushkin Alexander |
| Жанр | Классическая отечественная проза на англ языке |
| Год | 2022 |
One of the many aspects of Alexander Pushkin's immense contribution to Russian language and literature, and perhaps the one he is most popular for, is his mastery of the love poem, a genre which he perfected like few others before or after him. This volume contains a selection of his most famous and enduring verse explorations of love, such as 'I Loved You', 'Night' and 'I Well Recall a Wondrous Meeting', pieces which are crowning achievements of the European...
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| Год | 2017 |
A l'age de seize ans, sur ordre de son pere, Piotr Andreitch Griniov gagne le fort de Belogorsk ou il va servir et, parce qu'il est noble, devenir d'emblee officier. Quoique la vie de garnison ne fut pas faite pour le seduire, son existence devient vite plaisante, en particulier grace a la presence de Maria Ivanovna, la fille du capitaine, qu'il souhaiterait epouser. Mais, au debut d'octobre 1773, on apprend que le cosaque Pougatchov vient de reunir une bande de brigands...
| Автор | Pushkin Alexander |
| Год | 2013 |
The new expanded Everyman edition of Pushkin's prose fiction contains all his mature work. In addition to 'The Captain's 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. Pushkin's prose tales are the foundation stones of Russian literature. They made possible the great achievements of Dostosvsky, Tolstoy and Chekhov. But they...
| Автор | Pushkin Alexander |
| Жанр | Классическая отечественная проза на англ языке |
| Год | 1999 |
Set during the Pugachov rebellion against Catherine the Great, The Captain's Daughter was Pushkin's only completed novel and remains one of his most popular works. The inexperienced and impetuous young nobleman Pyotr Grinyev is sent on military service to a remote fortress, where he falls in love with Masha, Captain Mironov's daughter - but then the ruthless Cossack Pugachov lays siege to the stronghold, setting in motion a tragic train of events. This volume also contains another...
| Автор | Pushkin Alexander |
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| Год | 2017 |
When the world-weary dandy Eugene Onegin moves from St Petersburg to take up residence in the country estate he has inherited, he strikes up an unlikely friendship with his neighbour, the poet Vladimir Lensky. Coldly rejecting the amorous advances of Tatyana and cynically courting her sister Olga - Lensky's fiancee - Onegin finds himself dragged into a tragedy of his own making. Eugene Onegin - presented here in a sparkling translation by Roger Clarke, along with extensive notes and...
| Автор | Pushkin Alexander |
| Год | 2017 |
Dual-Language Edition. The founding father of modern Russian literature, Alexander Pushkin has exerted — through his novel in verse Eugene Onegin, his plays, his short stories and his narrative poetry — a long-lasting influence well beyond the borders of his motherland. A slightly lesser-known, but by no mean less important aspect of his writing is his vast production of shorter verse, a genre at which he excelled and arguably still remains unsurpassed. This volume, part of Alma’s series of...
| Автор | Pushkin Alexander |
| Год | 2022 |
First published in 1831, Belkin’s Stories was the first completed work of fiction by the founding father of Russian literature. Through a series of interlinked stories purporting to have been told by various narrators to the recently deceased country squire Ivan Belkin, Pushkin offers his own variation on themes and genres that were popular in his day and provides a vivid portrayal of the Russian people. From the story of revenge served cold in ‘The Shot’ to the havoc wreaked by a blizzard on...
| Автор | Pushkin Alexander |
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| Год | 2021 |
The pioneer of modern Russian literature, Alexander Pushkin has exerted – through his novel in verse Eugene Onegin, his plays, his short stories and his narrative poetry – a lasting influence well beyond the borders of his motherland. A slightly lesser-known, but by no mean less important aspect of his writing is his vast production of shorter verse, a genre at which he excelled and arguably still remains unsurpassed. This volume, part of Alma’s series of the complete works of Alexander Pushkin,...
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| Год | 2019 |
'She turned into a frog, into a lizard, into all kinds of other reptiles and then into a spindle' In these tales, young women go on long and difficult quests, wicked stepmothers turn children into geese and tsars ask dangerous riddles, with help or hindrance from magical dolls, cannibal witches, talking skulls, stolen wives, and brothers disguised as wise birds. Half the tales here are true oral tales, collected by folklorists during the last two centuries, while the others are...
| Автор | Павел Бажов, Pushkin Alexander, Afanasiev Alexandr N., Chandler R |
| Жанр | Нехудожественная литература на английском языке |
| Год | 2012 |
This title is translated, annotated and introduced by Gillon Aitken. Beyond his perfect expression of Russian mood, Pushkin's universality of vision has made him a permanent place in the history of world literature. Gillon Aitken's distinguished translation is the only volume that contains all his prose fiction, includingь some tales which remained unfinished when Pushkin was tragically killed in a duel at the age of thirty-seven.
| Автор | Pushkin Alexander |
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| Год | 2017 |
Among the most famous works by the great Russian poet Alexander Pushkin (1799-1837) are his narrative poems. The book we offer to attention of our readers contains three of them - The Bronze Horseman, Ruslan and Ludmila, and The Bakchesarian Fountain. The Bronze Horseman: A Petersburg Tale was written in 1833, while the action takes place during the great flood of 1824. The Bronze Horseman is considered to be Pushkin's best-known narrative poem and is one of the reasons why he is called the...
| Автор | Pushkin Alexander |
| Жанр | Русская литература |
| Год | 2018 |
Eugene Onegin is the master work of the poet whom Russians regard as the fountainhead of their literature. Set in 1820s imperial Russia, Pushkin's novel in verse follows the emotions and destiny of three men - Onegin the bored fop, Lensky the minor elegiast, and a stylized Pushkin himself - and the fates and affections of three women - Tatyana the provincial beauty, her sister Olga, and Pushkin's mercurial Muse. Engaging, full of suspense, and varied in tone, it also portrays a large...
| Автор | Pushkin Alexander |
| Год | 2020 |
"Eugene Onegin" is the master work of the poet whom Russians regard as the fountain head of their literature. Set in 1820s Russia, Pushkin's verse novel follows the fates of three men and three women. Engaging, full of suspense, and varied in tone, it contains a large cast of characters and offers the reader many literary, philosophical, and autobiographical digressions, often in a highly satirical vein. "Eugene Onegin" was Pushkin's own favorite work, and this new translation by...
| Автор | Pushkin Alexander |
| Жанр | Классическая отечественная проза на англ языке |
| Год | 2008 |
Shortlisted For The Read Russia Prize 2020 Alexander Pushkin established what we know as Russian literature. This collection includes his strongly personal lyric verse, which springs spontaneously from his everyday life - his numerous loves, his exile, his hectic life in St Petersburg - while the narrative poems here, from exotic Southern tales to comic parodies and fairy tales of enchanted tsars, display his endless ability to surprise. His landmark work The Bronze Horseman, with its ghostly...
| Автор | Pushkin Alexander |
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| Год | 2020 |
The Queen of Spades has long been acknowledged as one of the world's greatest short stories. In this classic literary representation of gambling, Alexander Pushkin explores the nature of obsession. Hints of the occult and gothic alternate with scenes of St Petersburg high-society in the story of the passionate Hermann's quest to master chance and make his fortune at the card-table. Underlying the taut plot is an ironical treatment of the romantic dreamer and social outcast. This volume...
| Автор | Pushkin Alexander |
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| Год | 2009 |
Fairy Tales by Alexander Pushkin: "Ruslan and Ludmila (translated by Irina Zheleznova)", "The Tale of Tsar Saltan (translated by Lovis Zelikoff)", "The Fisherman and the Goldfish (translated by Irina Zheleznova)", "The Tale of the Golden Cockerel (translated by Lovis Zelikoff)".
| Автор | Pushkin Alexander |
| Жанр | Нехудожественная литература для детей на англ яз |