Tales of the Late Ivan Petrovich Belkin, The Queen of Spades, The Captain's Daughter, Peter the Great's Blackamoor (Oxford World's Classics) [Paperback]

Alexander Pushkin (Author), Andrew Kahn (Editor), Alan Myers (Translator)

Book Description

Publication Date: May 15, 1997 | Series: Oxford World's Classics

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 masterpiece which 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.

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`He is a great story-teller, the Toby Litt of his day, you might say, and this translation knocks all the others I have seen (two) into a cocked hat. Terrific.' Nicholas Lezard, The Guardian

`The Queen of Spades is surely Pushkin's prose masterpiece, one of the greatest short stories ever written and the source of Tchaikovsky's opera.' The Irish Times (Dublin) --This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition.

Language Notes

Text: English (translation)
Original Language: Russian

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Product Details

• Paperback: 336 pages
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA (May 15, 1997)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0192832131
• ISBN-13: 978-0192832139
• Product Dimensions: 7.2 x 4.6 x 0.7 inches
• Shipping Weight: 6.4 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,874,835 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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4.0 out of 5 stars Make sure the reviews correspond to the edition!, August 31, 2007

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This review is from: Tales of the Late Ivan Petrovich Belkin, The Queen of Spades, The Captain's Daughter, Peter the Great's Blackamoor (Oxford World's Classics) (Paperback)

I wish to make it clear that the 2001 review published below when I was at Oberlin College is NOT of this Oxford World Classics edition-- with which I am unfamiliar-- but rather of a previous Dover Thrift Edition.

I am shocked that Amazon places reviews of different translated editions of the same title(s) interchangably.

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This review is from: Tales of the Late Ivan Petrovich Belkin, The Queen of Spades, The Captain's Daughter, Peter the Great's Blackamoor (Oxford World's Classics) (Paperback)

This collection of Pushkin's short stories includes his masterpiece-The Queen of Spades-as wellas some of his other best stories. The translation is excellant. This book is recommened.