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Marie (Hardcover)
Alexander Pushkin
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Discovery Miles 14 860
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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
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Marie (Hardcover)
Alexander Pushkin
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R618
Discovery Miles 6 180
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Ships in 12 - 17 working days
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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.
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.
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 work by Pushkin on the
same theme, A History of Pugachov, which presents an impartial,
meticulously researched history of the revolt, but was regarded in
aristocratic circles as subversive on its publication. Together,
these two works provide a fascinating insight into the character of
the peasant who tried to overthrow an empress, written with the
clarity and insight of Russia's greatest poet.
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."
Known as Russia's greatest poet, Pushkin was equally at ease working in other literary forms. The prose collected here includes "The Captain's Daughter," which chronicles the Pugachev Rebellion of 1770, "The Negro of Peter the Great," and "Dubrovsky."
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Tales Of Belkin (Paperback)
Alexander Pushkin; Translated by Josh Billings
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Discovery Miles 2 230
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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.
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Novels, Tales, Journeys (Paperback)
Alexander Pushkin; Translated by Richard Pevear, Larissa Volokhonsky
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R409
R348
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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'.
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 cast of other characters and offers
the reader many literary, philosophical, and autobiographical
digressions, often in a highly satirical vein. Eugene Onegin was
Pushkin's own favourite work, and it shows him attempting to
transform himself from a romantic poet into a realistic novelist.
This new translation seeks to retain both the literal sense and the
poetic music of the original, and capture the poem's spontaneity
and wit. The introduction examines several ways of reading the
novel, and text is richly annotated. 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.
Pushkin was the first Russian writer of European stature, and he is
among the very few artists - such as Homer and Shakespeare - to
have shaped the consciousness and history of an entire nation and
its language, thereby affecting the world at large. Eugene Onegin
is not merely the greatest poem in the Russian language by its most
influential poet: it is a global culture, social and political icon
of the highest order. The historical power of this work - a novel
in verse - is made all the more extraordinary by the simplicity of
its subject. Eugene Onegin is a story of disappointed love. Tatyana
falls for the handsome Eugene to whom she daringly makes advances.
He cooly rejects her, then flirts with her sister, Olga. When
challenged by Olga's fiance, Lensky kills him in a duel, seemingly
indifferrent to the grief he causes. (Ironically, Puskhin himself
was to be killed in similar circumstances in 1937, some seven years
after he completed the work). Onegin leaves the district. When he
returns four years later, Tatyana has married another man and it is
her turn to reject his advances. But it turns out that Onegin's
hauteur is affected: he has always loved her passionately. She
loves him too and both reflect painfully on what might have been.
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.
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