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Title	:	The Queen of Spades and Other Stories
Author	:	Alexander Pushkin
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Oxford World's Classics
Pages	:	Pages: 336 pages
Published	:	August 19th 1999 by Oxford University Press (first published 1834)
Categories	:	Classics. Short Stories. Cultural. Russia. Literature. Russian Literature. Fiction

The Queen of Spades and Other Stories

Alexander Pushkin

Paperback | Pages: 336 pages

Rating: 4.13 | 7392 Users | 161 Reviews

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This volume contains new translations of four of Pushkin's best works of fiction. The Queen of Spades has long been acknowledged as one of the world's greatest short stories, in which Pushkin explores the nature of obsession. The Tales of Belkin are witty parodies of sentimentalism, while Peter the Great's Blackamoor is an early experiment with recreating the past. The Captain's Daughter is a novel-length masterpiece which combines historical fiction in the manner of Sir Walter Scott with the devices of the Russian fairy-tale. The Introduction provides close readings of the stories and places them in their European literary context.

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Original Title:	Пиковая дама
ISBN:	0192839543 (ISBN13: 9780192839541)
Edition Language:	English
Characters:	Hermann, Lizaveta Ivanovna, The Countess
Setting:	Russian Empire

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Let's put it this way...Pushkin is one of my new favorite authors! I am embarassed to say that I have never read anything from Pushkin before this, and I'm craving for more...lots more. He is such a phenomenal story teller. As you read, you just become more and more interested in the characters and development. I have lots more to read from this genius. (I only gave it four stars because I was afraid this collection and translation doesn't do Pushkin justice...and I've yet to read more...)

In the final story of this collection, there's an episode in which a male character makes good use of the last shot in a round of ammunition. In the same tale, a female character makes very good use of the only ammunition she possesses: her ability to recount a story. Yes, the Captain's daughter, of the story of the same name, succeeds in telling her version of the 1775 Pugachev rebellion to the empress regent, Catherine the Great, with such powerful effect that she succeeds in clearing the name

[3.5] Pushkin from Pushkin Press. (This is at once amusing symmetry, and a little too on-the-nose. First time I've read him. This collection is mostly poetry.) Translation by Anthony Briggs, whose War & Peace I'd have read if it were available as an ebook two years ago; glad to read more of his at last.'The Queen of Spades'; 'The Stationmaster': More than cosy enough in the way perfectly characteristic of C19th classics. (A paper book of these, read after nightfall, beside a fire, teeters on

This is an enjoyable collection of short stories and poems written by the Russian Shakespeare, Alexander Pushkin (1799 1837), and translated into English by Anthony Briggs. The short stories seem brilliant, but I wonder if something is lost in the translation of the poetry by steadfastly maintaining the rhyming structures of the poems. The translator is to be commended for finding words that advance the messages of the poems and accurately rhyme, but several lines that must have flowed smoothly

What a man Pushkin was.What's most startling about Pushkin and this collection is how modern and relatable the stories are -both in theme and language- ... you wouldn't think in this day and age of silly technology that a guy from 19th century Russia would be so open to connection.

This little book was the perfect sampler of Pushkins work for a novice like me: I got a taste of his short stories, his poetry and his plays, and all that was portable enough to fit in my coat pocket! I greatly enjoyed the elegant prose, the mordant and tragic little tales, but I feel like I am a poor judge of poetry; its also possible that my undercaffeinated morning commute is just not the right setting for trying to absorb it. I also have to wonder how much is lost in translation, and not

(reviewing my edition: The Queen of Spades and The Tales of the Late Ivan Petrovich Belkin)Charming and engaging short stories in which ordinary people of different classes face coincidences or fantastical events leading to their fortune or misfortune. Pushkin pays homage to romance by inventing timid langorous young women and to adventure by inventing daring ambitious men, and letting destiny resolve all conflicts in the spectacularest manner. Very pleasant.The Queen of Spades revolves around