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Pushkin's novella The Queen of Spades offers a superb blend of sentimentality and melodrama. The story recounts mans fascination with fortune, power and secrecy. An enthralling book that explores fatal addiction with gambling that leads many to despair and ruin.
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Considered to be the greatest Russian poet, Pushkin is also the pioneer of modern Russian literature. Introducing the use of vernacular speech, he amalgamates drama, poetry and satire in his works. He greatly influenced the Russian writers of all eras.
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- PublisherSignet Classics
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- ISBN 13 9780451500700
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The Queen of Spades and Other Tales
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Book Description paperback. Condition: Very Good in Wrappers. 1st edition. New York. 1961. September 1961. Signet/New American Library. 1st Signet Classic Paperback Edition. Very Good in Wrappers. 0451500709. Translated From The Russian By Ivy & Tatiana Litvinov.Foreword By George Steiner. 319 pages. paperback. CP70. keywords: Signet Classic Paperback Russia Translated Literature 19th Century. FROM THE PUBLISHER - Virtually all of the great Russian writers - Tolstoy, Dostoyevsky, Turgenev, Chekhov, Gogol, Pasternak - have acknowledged these stories among their permanent models. Describing the clash of wills, baroque courtships, and lightning chases over the steppes, Pushkin single - handedly stormed an age of barbaric and imitative literature. His brooding soldiers, fragile ladies, perversely benevolent Cossacks, and paranoid gamblers act out their pageants of persecution and lust against the Gothic silence of frontier Russia. In Pushkin we have a writer who, brimming over with impressions of life, strove to portray them in prose and poetry with the utmost truth and realism, achieving his goal with all the brilliancy of genius.' Maxim Gorky. Contains - THE QUEEN OF SPADES, THE TALES OF IVAN BELKIN: The Shot, Blizzard, The Undertaker, The Postmaster, Lady Into Lassie, DUBROVSKY, THE CAPTAIN'S DAUGHTER. inventory #29226. Seller Inventory # z29226
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