The Queen of Spades and Other Stories
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 andsocial 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 exp…
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Weitere Autoren: Kahn, Andrew (Hrsg.) / Myers, Alan (Übers.)
- ISBN: 978-0-19-264350-6
- EAN: 9780192643506
- Produktnummer: 34390454
- Verlag: Oxford University Press
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2009
- Seitenangabe: 336 S.
- Plattform: PDF
- Masse: 91'698 KB
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Andrew Kahn is Fellow and Tutor in Russian at St Edmund Hall, Oxford, and University Lecturer in Russian in the University of Oxford. His previous publications include articles on Russian poetry and eighteenth-century Russian literature.Alan Myers has translated a wide variety of contemporary Russian prose, including poems, essays and plays by Joseph Brodksy. His translations of Dostoevsky's The Idiot and A Gentle Creature and Other Stories are published in World's Classics.
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