- Paperback: 336 pages
- Publisher: Oxford Paperbacks (Feb 10 2009)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0199538654
- ISBN-13: 978-0199538652
- Product Dimensions: 19.3 x 12.7 x 1.5 cm
- Shipping Weight: 299 g
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- #100 in Books > Literature & Fiction > Classics > Russian
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`He is a great story-teller, the Toby Litt of his day, you might say, and this translation knocks all the others I have seen (two) into a cocked hat. Terrific.' Nicholas Lezard, The Guardian
`The Queen of Spades is surely Pushkin's prose masterpiece, one of the greatest short stories ever written and the source of Tchaikovsky's opera.' The Irish Times (Dublin)
`The Queen of Spades is surely Pushkin's prose masterpiece, one of the greatest short stories ever written and the source of Tchaikovsky's opera.' The Irish Times (Dublin)
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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.
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Make sure the reviews correspond to the edition!, Aug 31 2007
By David L. Shengold - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Tales of the Late, Ivan Petrovich Belkin, the Queen of Spades, the Captain's Daughter, Peter the Great'S, Blackamoor: The Queen of Spades ; The Captain's Daughter ; Peter the Great's Blackamoor (Paperback)
I wish to make it clear that the 2001 review published below when I was at Oberlin College is NOT of this Oxford World Classics edition-- with which I am unfamiliar-- but rather of a previous Dover Thrift Edition.I am shocked that Amazon places reviews of different translated editions of the same title(s) interchangably.
-David Shengold
Philadelphia PA
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a Russian World, May 7 2011
By Tony Marquise Jr. - Published on Amazon.com
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This review is from: The Queen of Spades and Other Stories (Paperback)
This collection of Pushkin's short stories includes his masterpiece-The Queen of Spades-as wellas some of his other best stories. The translation is excellant. This book is recommened.
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