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 poetry. Translated 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
Godunov Extract fromMozart and Salieri 'The Bronze Horseman' 'Tsar
Nikita and 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, 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 1837. Anthony 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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