Tales of the late Ivan Petrovich Belkin ; The Queen of Spades ; The Captain's daughter ; Peter the Great's Blackamoor
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Bibliographic Information
Tales of the late Ivan Petrovich Belkin ; The Queen of Spades ; The Captain's daughter ; Peter the Great's Blackamoor
(The world's classics)
Oxford University Press, 1997
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The Queen of Spades and other stories
Available at 2 libraries
  Aomori
  Iwate
  Miyagi
  Akita
  Yamagata
  Fukushima
  Ibaraki
  Tochigi
  Gunma
  Saitama
  Chiba
  Tokyo
  Kanagawa
  Niigata
  Toyama
  Ishikawa
  Fukui
  Yamanashi
  Nagano
  Gifu
  Shizuoka
  Aichi
  Mie
  Shiga
  Kyoto
  Osaka
  Hyogo
  Nara
  Wakayama
  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
  Yamaguchi
  Tokushima
  Kagawa
  Ehime
  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
  China
  Thailand
  United Kingdom
  Germany
  Switzerland
  France
  Belgium
  Netherlands
  Sweden
  Norway
  United States of America
Note
Includes bibliographical references (p. [246]-273)
Description and Table of Contents
Description
This volume contains new translations of four of Pushkin's works of fiction. In the Queen of Spades Pushkin explores the nature of obsession. The Tales of Belkin are parodies of sentimentalism, while Peter the Great's Blackamoor is an early experiment with recreating the past. The Captain's Daughter 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. This should be of interest to undergraduate students of Russian literature, post-graduate students of comparative literature, courses on the history of the novel, the historical novel and the relation between literature and history, and general readers.
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