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  Eugene Onegin

  A Novel in Verse

  by Aleksandr Pushkin

  Eugene Onegin is the master work of the poet whom Russians regard as the fountainhead of their literature. Set in 1820s Russia, Pushkin's verse novel follows the fates of three men and three women. Engaging, full of suspense, and varied in tone, it also portrays a large cast of other characters and offers the reader many literary, philosophical, and autobiographical digressions, often in a highly satrical vein. ... (more)
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  The Queen of Spades and Other Stories : A New Translation

  by Aleksandr Pushkin

  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... (more)
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  The Queen of Spades

  by Aleksandr Pushkin

  Alexander Sergeievitch Pushkin (1799-1837) is considered Russia's greatest poet and, by many, the greatest Russian writer. The father of Russian literature, he first achieved fame for his long narrative poems similar to Lord Byron's. In the late 1820s, Pushkin turned to prose and produced a series of outstanding works, influencing all Russian writers who followed.
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  Captain's Daughter and Other Stories

  by Aleksandr Pushkin

  Introduction by John Bayley; Translation by Natalie Duddington
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  Great Russian Short Stories (Dover Thrift Editions)

  Twelve powerful works of fiction for students of Russian literature and devotees of great writing. Contents: Pushkin's "The Queen of Spades," Gogol's "The Overcoat," Turgenev's "The District Doctor," Dostoyevsky's "White Nights," Tolstoy's "How Much Land Does a Man Need?," plus "The Clothes Mender" by Leskov, "The Signal" by Garshin, "The Lady with the Toy Dog" by Chekhov, "The White Mother" by Sologub,... (more)
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  Everyman's Library

  Alexander Pushkin: The Collected Stories (Everyman's Library)

  by Aleksandr Pushkin

  (Book Jacket Status: Jacketed) Pushkin’s prose tales are the foundation stones on which the great novels of Turgenev, Tolstoy, and Dostoevsky were built, but they are also brilliant and fascinating in their own right. In both prose and verse, Pushkin was one of the world’s great storytellers: direct and dramatic, clear-sighted, vivid, and passionate. This new and expanded Everyman’s edition of his stories... (more)
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  Collected Narrative and Lyrical Poetry

  by Aleksandr Pushkin

  Text: English, Russian (translation)
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  The Daughter of the Commandant

  by Aleksandr Pushkin

  This book was converted from its physical edition to the digital format by a community of volunteers. You may find it for free on the web. Purchase of the Kindle edition includes wireless delivery.
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  Boris Godunov and Other Dramatic Works

  by Aleksandr Pushkin

  Alexander Pushkin's dramatic work displays a scintillating variety of forms, from the historical to the metaphysical and folkloric. After Boris Godunov, they evolved into Pushkin's own unique, condensed transformations of Western European themes and traditions. The fearful amorality of A Scene from Faust is followed by the four Little Tragedies, which confront greed, envy, lust, and blasphemy, while Rusalka is a... (more)
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  Pushkin: A Biography

  by Elaine Feinstein

  In an engaging biography of Russian literary genius Alexander Pushkin, whose life was as dramatic as any story he invented, poet and novelist Feinstein explores the paradoxes of the unruly writer. 8 illustrations.
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  Boris Godunov

  by Aleksandr Pushkin, Modest Petrovich Mussorgsky

  Alexander Pushkin's masterful tragedy, intrinsic to Russian culture and major inspiration for theater, art, and opera. Nicholas Rzhevsky, the editor and translator, provides a vibrant new translation, faithful to the original, yet suitable for modern readers and contemporary performance on the stage. Pushkin's themes of moral compromise and political expediency reach out to the new millennium with the force of... (more)
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  The Tale of the Golden Cockerel

  by Aleksandr Pushkin

  Original title: Сказка о золотом петушкеFairy tale in verse by Alexander Pushkin. Pushkin wrote the tale in 1834 and it was first published in literary magazine Biblioteka dlya chteniya in 1835. The tale is based on the short story "Legend of the Arabian Astrologer" from the "Tales of the Alhambra" by Washington Irving.The old czar promises anything to be free of the threat of his enemies, but... (more)
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  The Complete Prose Tales of Alexandr Sergeyevitch Pushkin

  by Aleksandr Pushkin

  Writing with lyrical simplicity, Pushkin laid the foundations of an indigenous national literature. Considered in his day Russia's greatest poet, Pushkin was famous not only for works that inspired ballets and operas, such as Eugene Onegin and Boris Godunov, but for his stories--"The Queen of Spades" and many others--all of which are collected here in a translation that captures their grace and vitality.
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  The Bronze Horseman

  Selected Poems of Alexander Pushkin

  by Aleksandr Pushkin

  Text: Russian
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  Pushkin

  A Biography

  by T. J. Binyon

  In the course of his short, dramatic life, Aleksandr Pushkin gave Russia not only its greatest poetry–including the novel-in-verse Eugene Onegin –but a new literary language. He also gave it a figure of enduring romantic allure–fiery, restless, extravagant, a prodigal gambler and inveterate seducer of women. Having forged a dazzling, controversial career that cost him the enmity of one tsar and won him the... (more)
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  Little tragedies

  by Aleksandr Pushkin

  In a major burst of creativity, Russian poet Alexander Pushkin during just three months in 1830 completed Eugene Onegin, composed more than thirty lyric poems, wrote several short stories and folk tales, and penned the four short dramas in verse that comprise the "little tragedies". The "little tragedies" stand among the great masterpieces of Russian literature, yet they were last translated into English a quarter... (more)
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  The Devil in the Flesh

  by Raymond Radiguet

  The Devil in the Flesh , one of the finest, most delicate love stories ever written, is set in Paris during the last year of the First World War. The narrator, a boy of 16, tells of his love affair with Martha Lacombe, a young woman whose soldier husband is away at the front. With an accuracy of insight that is almost ruthless, he describes his conflicting emotions-the pride of an adolescent on the verge of... (more)
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  Ruslan and Lyudmila

  by Aleksandr Pushkin

  A narrative poem based on Russian folklore that later inspired Glinka's famous opera. Spirited away by the evil sorcerer Chernomor, Lyudmila awaits rescue by her beloved Ruslan. Before he can secure her release, however, the gallant Ruslan must first endure all the trials and tribulations that a malevolent world can throw at him. Full of daring adventure, and peopled with an extraordinary collection of magical—and... (more)
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  Marie

  by Aleksandr Pushkin

  Our laundress, a fat girl all scarred by smallpox, and our dairymaid, who was blind of an eye, agreed, one fine day, to throw themselves at my mother's feet and accuse the Frenchman of trifling with their innocence and inexperience! My mother would have no jesting upon this point, and she in turn complained to my father, who, like a man of business, promptly ordered "that dog of a Frenchman" into his presence.... (more)
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  The Long Meadow

  Poems

  by Vijay Seshadri

  The extraordinary second collection by Vijay Seshadri, winner of the 2003 James Laughlin award of The Academy of American Poets We hold it against you that you survived. People better than you are dead, but you still punch the clock. Your body has wizened but has not bled -from "Survivor" Vijay Seshadri's first collection of poems, Wild Kingdom , was celebrated as one of the most exciting debuts in... (more)