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Marie (Hardcover)
Alexander Pushkin
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Marie (Hardcover)
Alexander Pushkin
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My father, Andrew Peter Grineff, having served in his youth under
Count Munich, left the army in 17-, with the grade of First Major.
From that time he lived on his estate in the Principality of
Simbirsk, where he married Avoditia, daughter of a poor noble in
the neighborhood. Of nine children, the issue of this marriage, I
was the only survivor. My brothers and sisters died in childhood.
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 editions are bound in colourful, tactile
cloth and stamped with foil. A countess with a card trick; love
letters filled with deception; a desperate man with a pistol.'The
Queen of Spades', one of Pushkin's most popular and chilling
stories, is accompanied here by the thrilling 'Dubrovsky' and
unforgettable 'Tales of Belkin'. 'He is the lasting wonder of
Russian literature' - Guardian
As complex as they are gripping, Pushkin's stories are some of the
greatest and most influential ever written. Foundational to the
development of Russian prose, they retain stunning freshness and
clarity, more than ever in Anthony Briggs's finely nuanced
translations. These are stories that upend expectations at every
turn: in The Captain's Daughter, Pushkin's masterful novella of
love and rebellion set during the reign of Catherine the Great, a
mysterious encounter proves fatally significant during a brutal
uprising, while in 'The Queen of Spades' a man obsessively pursues
an elderly woman's secret for success at cards, with bizarre
results.
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 commentary - was the founding text
of modern Russian literature, marking a clean break from the
high-flown classical style of its predecessors and introducing the
quintessentially Russian hero and heroine, which would remain the
archetypes for novelists throughout the nineteenth century.
The first volume in the series is by one of the most renowned
contemporary translators into English. He discusses his recent
experience of translating Tolstoy s "War and Peace," and offers
alongside his illuminating essay a wonderful rendition of Pushkin s
long poem "The Tale of the Preacher and His Man Bumpkin." The poem
is printed in Russian and English and is accompanied by drawings by
Pushkin himself."
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 contains three
other major works of Pushkin's fiction, moving from the witty
parodies of sentimentalism and high melodrama in The Tales of
Belkin to an early experiment with recreating the past in Peter the
Great's Blackamoor. It concludes with the novel-length masterpiece
The Captain's Daughter, which combines historical fiction in the
manner of Sir Walter Scott with the colour and devices of the
Russian fairy-tale in a narrative of rebellion and romance. These
new translations, as well as being meticulously faithful to the
original, do full justice to the elegance and fluency of Pushkin's
prose. The Introduction provides insightful readings of the stories
and places them in their European literary context. A chronology of
the Pugachov Uprising illuminates the events in The Captain's
Daughter. ABOUT THE SERIES: For over 100 years Oxford World's
Classics has made available the widest range of literature from
around the globe. Each affordable volume reflects Oxford's
commitment to scholarship, providing the most accurate text plus a
wealth of other valuable features, including expert introductions
by leading authorities, helpful notes to clarify the text,
up-to-date bibliographies for further study, and much more.
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Tales Of Belkin (Paperback)
Alexander Pushkin; Translated by Josh Billings
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Ivan Petrovich Belkin left behind a great number of
manuscripts.... Most of them, as Ivan Petrovich told me, were true
stories heard from various people.
First published anonymously in 1830, Alexander Pushkin's "Tales of
Belkin" contains his first prose works. It is comprised of an
introductory note and five linked stories, ostensibly collected by
the scholar Ivan Belkin. The stories center variously around
military figures, the wealthy, and businessmen; this beautiful
novella gives a vivid portrait of nineteenth century Russian
life.
It has become, as well, one of the most beloved books in Russian
literary history, and symbolic of the popularity of the novella
form in Russia. In fact, it has become the namesake for Russia's
most prestigious annual literary prize, the Belkin Prize, given
each year to a book voted by judges to be the best novella of the
year.
It is presented here in a sparkling new translation by Josh
Billings. "Tales of Belkin" also highlights the nature of our
ongoing Art of the Novella Series--that is, that it specializes in
important although albeit lesser-known works by major writers,
often in new tranlsations.
The Art of The Novella Series
Too short to be a novel, too long to be a short story, the novella
is generally unrecognized by academics and publishers. Nonetheless,
it is a form beloved and practiced by literature's greatest
writers. In the Art Of The Novella series, Melville House
celebrates this renegade art form and its practitioners with titles
that are, in many instances, presented in book form for the first
time.
A drama of ambition, murder, remorse and retribution, Boris Godunov
charts the decline of a Russian statesman, whose dynastic aims were
foiled by a guilty past and an audacious upstart. Based on history
and inspired by Shakespeare, Alexander Pushkin's daring masterwork
is presented here in its rarely published uncensored version of
1825. Set in Vienna, Flanders, Madrid and London, Pushkin's
celebrated Little Tragedies - Mozart and Salieri, The Mean-Spirited
Knight, The Stone Guest and A Feast during the Plague - each focus
on a protagonist's driving obsession - with status, money, sex or
risk-taking - and its devastating consequences.
Still the benchmark of Russian literature 175 years after its first
publication--now in a marvelous new translation
PUSHKIN'S INCOMPARABLE POEM has at its center a young Russian
dandy much like Pushkin in his attitudes and habits. Eugene Onegin,
bored with the triviality of everyday life, takes a trip to the
countryside, where he encounters the young and passionate Tatyana.
She falls in love with him but is cruelly rejected. Years later,
Eugene Onegin sees the error of his ways, but fate is not on his
side. A tragic story about love, innocence, and friendship, this
beautifully written tale is a treasure for any fan of Russian
literature.
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Novels, Tales, Journeys (Paperback)
Alexander Pushkin; Translated by Richard Pevear, Larissa Volokhonsky
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Puskin's masterpieces in prose, in sparkling new translations by
the award-winning Pevear and Volokhonsky. The father of Russian
literature, Pushkin is beloved not only for his poetry but also for
his brilliant stories, which range from dramatic narratives of
love, obsession and betrayal to lively comic tales, and from
satirical epistolary tales to imaginative historical fiction. This
volume includes all Pushkin's prose in brilliant new translations,
including his masterpieces 'The Queen of Spades', 'The Tales of the
Late Ivan Petrovich Belkin' and 'The Captain's Daughter'.
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.
THIS 20 PAGE ARTICLE WAS EXTRACTED FROM THE BOOK: The Omnibus of
Adventure Volume Two, by Alexander Pushkin. To purchase the entire
book, please order ISBN 1419181335.
A tale of intrigue, deception, murder and retribution, "Boris
Godunov" charts the rise and fall of an ambitious prince who cannot
avoid facing the consequences of his dark past. Based on the
historical figure of the nobleman Boris Godunov, who seized power
from Ivan the Terrible's successor in sixteenth-century Russia, and
partly inspired by Shakespeare's "Macbeth", Alexander Pushkin's
1825 play showcases the author's mastery of verse and dramatic
form. Also included in this volume are Pushkin's celebrated four
Little Tragedies: "Mozart and Salieri", "The Miserly Knight", "The
Stone Guest" and "A Feast During the Plague".
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