A dazzling new collection of Pushkin’s most essential fiction, in definitive translations by the acclaimed Anthony Briggs
Pushkin’s restless creative genius laid the foundations for Russian prose. His stories, among the greatest and most influential ever written, retain stunning directness and precision, more than ever in Anthony Brigg’s finely nuanced translations.
Upending expectations at every turn, Pushkin depicts brutal conflicts and sudden reversals of fortune with disarming lightness and sly humour. These are stories of fateful chances: a stationmaster encourages his young daughter to ride to town with a traveller, only to lose her forever; a man obsessively pursues an elderly woman’s secret for success at cards with bizarre results, in ‘The Queen of Spades’; and in The Captain’s Daughter, Pushkin’s great historical novella of love and rebellion in the era of Catherine the Great, a mysterious encounter proves fatally significant during a violent uprising.
About the author
Alexander Sergeyevich Pushkin (1799- 1837) ranks as one of Russia’s greatest writers. He attained fame in 1820 with his first long poem, Ruslan and Lyudmila. That decade also saw him produce his most famous play, Boris Godunov, and Eugene Onegin. ‘The Queen of Spades’, his most famous prose work, was published in 1834; ‘The Bronze Horseman’ appeared after his death.
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