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The Queen of Spades and Selected Works

Download or Read eBook The Queen of Spades and Selected Works PDF written by Alexander Pushkin and published by Pushkin Press. This book was released on 2012-11-27 with total page 161 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
The Queen of Spades and Selected Works
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Publisher : Pushkin Press
Total Pages : 161
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ISBN-10 : 9781908968104
ISBN-13 : 1908968109
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Book Synopsis The Queen of Spades and Selected Works by : Alexander Pushkin

Book excerpt: "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)


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