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by: Alexander Pushkin
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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 891.733
EAN: 9780192839541
ISBN: 0192839543
Label: Oxford University Press, USA
Manufacturer: Oxford University Press, USA
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 336
Publication Date: August 19, 1999
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Sales Rank: 429614
Studio: Oxford University Press, USA
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This volume contains new translations of four of Pushkin's best works of fiction. The Queen of Spades has long been acknowledged as one of the world's greatest short stories, in which Pushkin explores the nature of obsession. The Tales of Belkin are witty parodies of sentimentalism, while Peter the Great's Blackamoor is an early experiment with recreating the past. The Captain's Daughter is a novel-length masterpiece which combines historical fiction in the manner of Sir Walter Scott with the devices of the Russian fairy-tale. The Introduction provides close readings of the stories and places them in their European literary context.
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Rating: - Make sure the reviews correspond to the edition!
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
Rating: - Six short stories - Good Introduction to Alexander Pushkin
This Dover Thrift edition - The Queen of Spades and Other Stories - offers an enjoyable introduction to Alexander Pushkin, an early nineteenth century Russian poet and writer. This collection includes Pushkin's popular The Queen of Spades and his five short stories published under the title The Tales of the Late P. Belkin. The translation was by T. Keane, originally published in 1894 by G. Bell & Sons, London.
The Queen of Spades is a haunting story of one man's obsession with gambling. ... Read More
Rating:  - Excellent Introduction to Pushkin
From what I can learn this present volume ISBN 0192839543 from 1999 replaces ISBN 0192832131 from 1997.That volume is almost identical but is just 273 pages versus the present. I am not clear on all the changes but the books contains similar material and identical covers.
Roughly, here is the contents:
Introduction
Bibliography
Life of Pushkin
Milestones of the Pugachev Uprising
The Puskin Stories:
Tales of the Late Ivan Petrovich Belkin ... Read More
Rating: - either fantasy or reality
If someone comes to me and asks what I think true Russian
spirit is, I would say, "duel" is. Russian duel is very reckless
and even absurd because the percentage of survival is only 50%.
Each load their gun and go to the opposite end and they shoot
from distance in turn until either one is shot.
In the book, German,the main character, is a half-bood of
Russian and Germany. Due to his birth,mixed with German blood,
he is usually ... Read More
Rating:  - Teachers (and others): Avoid this edition!
I had been happy to read about a supposedly unabridged and very inexpensive edition of "Queen of Spades" and the Belkin tales, as (as a college instructor) I often assign "Queen of Spades" in courses on opera or Petersburg, or in which one would not neces sarily need the student to order a whole compilation of Pushkin's fiction, such as Norton's very solid COMPLETE PROSE TALES.
However, this edition is *far* from unabridged. The editor has taken it upon himself to cut not only ALL the epigraphs from ... Read More
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