"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 from Boris Godunov and Mozart and Salieri
The Bronze Horseman (narrative poem), Tsar Nikita and His Forty
Daughters (folk poem) and 14 lyric poems
Novel in Verse: Extract from Yevgeny 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.
| ISBN: | 9781908968036 |
| Publication date: | 22nd November 2012 |
| Author: | Aleksandr Sergeevich Pushkin, Aleksandr Sergeevich Pushkin |
| Publisher: | Pushkin Press an imprint of Steerforth Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Pagination: | 160 pages |
| Series: | Pushkin Collection |
| Genres: |
Classic fiction: general and literary Anthologies: general General Fiction |