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The Queen of Spades and Selected Works
Contributor(s): Pushkin, Alexander (Author), Briggs, Anthony (Translator)

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 ISBN: 1908968036     ISBN-13: 9781908968036
Publisher: Pushkin Collection
OUR PRICE: $13.60  

Binding Type: Paperback
Published: June 2013
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Additional Information
BISAC Categories:
- Fiction | Classics
- Fiction | Literary
- Fiction | Short Stories (single Author)
Dewey: FIC
Series: Pushkin Collection
Physical Information: 0.56" H x 5.02" W x 6.23" L (0.36 lbs) 160 pages
Features: Illustrated, Price on Product, Table of Contents
 
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Publisher Description:
The Queen of Spades is one of the most famous tales in Russian literature, and inspired the eponymous opera by Tchaikovsky; in The Stationmaster, from The Tales of the Late Ivan Petrovich Belkin, Pushkin reworks the parable of the Prodigal Son; Tsar Nikita and his Forty Daughters is one of Pushkin's bawdier early poems; and the narrative poem The Bronze Horseman, inspired by a St Petersburg statue of Peter the Great, is one of Pushkin's best-known and most influential works. The volume also includes a selection of Pushkin's best lyric poetry.

Contents:
- Short Stories: The Queen of Spades; The Stationmaster
- Drama: Extracts from Boris Godunov and Mozart and Salieri
- The Bronze Horseman (narrative poem), Tsar Nikita and His Forty
Daughters (folk poem) and 14 lyric poems
- Novel in Verse: Extract from Yevgeny Onegin (novel in verse)

Pushkin Collection editions feature a spare, elegant series style and superior, durable components. The Collection is typeset in Monotype Baskerville, litho-printed on Munken Premium White Paper and notch-bound by the independently owned printer TJ International in Padstow. The covers, with French flaps, are printed on Colorplan Pristine White Paper. Both paper and cover board are acid-free and Forest Stewardship Council (FSC) certified.
 
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