Novels, tales, journeys : the complete prose
Pushkin, Aleksandr Sergeevich, 1799-18372024
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The complete prose fiction of one of the world's greatest storytellers. Killed in a duel in 1837 at the age of 37, Alexander Pushkin was the archetypal Romantic poet. Yet he was equally at home in prose, and his tales are the foundation stones on which the great house of nineteenth-century Russian fiction was built. Here of course are his masterpieces, 'The Queen of Spades', an ironic take on both the supernatural and the society tale, the 'Tales of Belkin', often humorous yet imbued with deep understanding of human nature, and the novella 'The Captain's Daughter', which, informed by meticulous research into the Pugachev Rebellion against Catherine the Great, is a perfect combination of folk epic, historical narrative and love story. Other works include the richly comic 'A History of the Village of Goriukhino', 'The Moor of Peter the Great' (based on the life of the author's own great-grandfather. Pushkin was particularly proud of his African ancestry), and 'Journey to Arzrum', the fascinating autobiographical account of his (unauthorized, and greatly displeasing to the Tsar) travels in the Caucasus at the time of the 1828-9 Russo-Turkish war.
Main title:
Novels, tales, journeys : the complete prose / by Alexander Pushkin ; translated from the Russian by Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky ; with an introduction by John Bayley.
Author:
Pushkin, Aleksandr Sergeevich, 1799-1837Pevear, Richard, 1943-, translatorVolokhonsky, Larissa, translatorBayley, John, 1925-2015, writer of introduction
Imprint:
New York : Everyman's Library, 2024.©2016.
Collation:
li, 544 pages ; 21 cm.
Notes:
This translation originally published by Alfred A. Knopf in 2016.Includes bibliographical references.Translated from the Russian.
ISBN:
9781841594187 (hardback)
Dewey class:
891.733
Language:
EnglishRussian
Subject:
BRN:
504882
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| Location | Collection | Call number | Status/Desc |
|---|---|---|---|
| St Marys | Nonfiction | 891.733 NOV | AvailableRecently returned |