The Queen of Spades and Selected Works av Alexander (Author) Pushkin

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"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.<br><br>Contents:<br>• Short Stories: <i>The Queen of Spades</i>; <i>The Stationmaster</i><br>• Drama: Extracts from <i>Boris Godunov</i> and <i>Mozart and Salieri</i><br>• The Bronze Horseman (narrative poem), Tsar Nikita and His Forty<br>Daughters (folk poem) and 14 lyric poems<br>• Novel in Verse: Extract from <i>Yevgeny Onegin</i> (novel in verse)<br><br>Pushkin Collection editions feature a spare,