2 books by Alexander Pushkin (Penguin Classics)
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Overview: Alexander Sergeevich Pushkin was a Russian Romantic author who is considered to be the greatest Russian poet and the founder of modern Russian literature Pushkin pioneered the use of vernacular speech in his poems and plays, creating a style of storytelling—mixing drama, romance, and satire—associated with Russian literature ever since and greatly influencing later Russian writers.
Genre: Fiction > Short Stories
Tales of Belkin and Other Prose Writings
These stories are wonderful in their purity of form, humor, and understatement. This collection also contains a selection of other Pushkin writings, including the fragment Roslavlev, Egyptian Nights, and the autobiographical Journey to Arzrum.
The Queen of Spades and Other Stories
‘The Queen of Spades’, one of Pushkin’s most popular and chilling short stories, tells of an inveterate card player who develops a dangerous obsession with the secret of an old lady’s luck, which he believes will bring him the wealth he craves. ‘The Negro of Peter the Great’, a story based on the life Pushkin’s own great-grandfather, is a vivid depiction – and criticism – of both French and Russian society, while ‘Dubrovsky’ is the Byronic tale of a dispossessed young officer. ‘The Captain’s Daughter’ tells of a young man sent to military service – based on the actual events of the rebellion against Catherine II, it demonstrates Pushkin’s unparalleled skill at blending fiction and history. Together these four stories display the versatility and innovation that earned Pushkin his reputation as a master of prose and established him as the towering figure in Russian literature.
In this edition Rosemary Edmonds’s translation is accompanied by an introduction examining Pushkin’s simplicity of style and the powerful influence he exerted on his country’s literature.
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