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Description:When conceiving his master-piece Anna Karenina, Leo Tolstoy took inspiration from a discarded story of Alexander Pushkin’s: ‘It came upon me in spite of myself, thanks to the divine Pushkin.’ This authoritative collection contains Pushkin’s most celebrated and influential prose.Nowhere is Puskin's famous economy of expression starker than in the eponymous story, his only piece of prose fiction to garner immediate contemporary acclaim. It is an audacious, beguiling tale of greed and obsession. As introducer Rachel Polonsky writes, ‘With its diamond-hard, flawlessly clear surface and its unfathomable suggestive depth, “The Queen of Spades” is literature’s supreme tease.’ The story of ill-fortuned Hermann and his dalliance with the high-society gambling tables of St Petersburg draws the reader into an enthralling and unwinnable game. Questions of chance, fate and supernatural forces are maddeningly unanswered as Hermann foolishly pursues the elderly Countess and her secrets.Pushkin’s simple, erudite prose, here presented in the acclaimed translation by Alan Myers, constantly surprises the reader with its narrative precision and effortless conflation of literary trends and genres. The romanticised memoir ‘The Captain’s Daughter’ and ‘Peter the Great’s Blackamoor’ conjure intriguing imagined histories, the latter playing to Pushkin’s own fascinating ancestry, while the delightfully parodic ‘The Tales of the Late Ivan Petrovich Belkin’ satirises the bloated Russian fiction that preceded it.Following their multi award-winning work on Eugene Onegin, the Balbusso twins have become synonymous with Folio’s collection of Russian classics. Here they have created six haunting images evoking the tales’ fantastical and dreamlike atmosphere.Bound in cloth, blocked with a design by Anna & Elena BalbussoSet in Bembo320 pages; frontispiece and 6 colour illustrationsPrinted endpapers9½" x 6¼"We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with The Queen of Spades and Other Stories – Folio Society Edition. To get started finding The Queen of Spades and Other Stories – Folio Society Edition, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Pages: 320

Format: PDF, EPUB & Kindle Edition

Publisher: The Folio Society

Release: 2014

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Description: When conceiving his master-piece Anna Karenina, Leo Tolstoy took inspiration from a discarded story of Alexander Pushkin’s: ‘It came upon me in spite of myself, thanks to the divine Pushkin.’ This authoritative collection contains Pushkin’s most celebrated and influential prose.Nowhere is Puskin's famous economy of expression starker than in the eponymous story, his only piece of prose fiction to garner immediate contemporary acclaim. It is an audacious, beguiling tale of greed and obsession. As introducer Rachel Polonsky writes, ‘With its diamond-hard, flawlessly clear surface and its unfathomable suggestive depth, “The Queen of Spades” is literature’s supreme tease.’ The story of ill-fortuned Hermann and his dalliance with the high-society gambling tables of St Petersburg draws the reader into an enthralling and unwinnable game. Questions of chance, fate and supernatural forces are maddeningly unanswered as Hermann foolishly pursues the elderly Countess and her secrets.Pushkin’s simple, erudite prose, here presented in the acclaimed translation by Alan Myers, constantly surprises the reader with its narrative precision and effortless conflation of literary trends and genres. The romanticised memoir ‘The Captain’s Daughter’ and ‘Peter the Great’s Blackamoor’ conjure intriguing imagined histories, the latter playing to Pushkin’s own fascinating ancestry, while the delightfully parodic ‘The Tales of the Late Ivan Petrovich Belkin’ satirises the bloated Russian fiction that preceded it.Following their multi award-winning work on Eugene Onegin, the Balbusso twins have become synonymous with Folio’s collection of Russian classics. Here they have created six haunting images evoking the tales’ fantastical and dreamlike atmosphere.Bound in cloth, blocked with a design by Anna & Elena BalbussoSet in Bembo320 pages; frontispiece and 6 colour illustrationsPrinted endpapers9½" x 6¼"We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with The Queen of Spades and Other Stories – Folio Society Edition. To get started finding The Queen of Spades and Other Stories – Folio Society Edition, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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