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The Captain's Daughter Alexander Pushkin

The Captain's Daughter By Alexander Pushkin

The Captain's Daughter by Alexander Pushkin


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Summary

A dazzling new collection of Pushkin's most fiction, in definitive translations by the acclaimed Anthony Briggs.

The Captain's Daughter Summary

The Captain's Daughter: Essential Stories by Alexander Pushkin

As complex as they are gripping, Pushkin's stories are some of the greatest and most influential ever written. Foundational to the development of Russian prose, they retain stunning freshness and clarity, more than ever in Anthony Briggs's finely nuanced translations. These are stories that upend expectations at every turn: in The Captain's Daughter, Pushkin's masterful novella of love and rebellion set during the reign of Catherine the Great, a mysterious encounter proves fatally significant during a brutal uprising, while in 'The Queen of Spades' a man obsessively pursues an elderly woman's secret for success at cards, with bizarre results.

The Captain's Daughter Reviews

'In any language, The Captain's Daughter would be a miniature masterpiece' - Daily Telegraph

'The Captain's Daughter is one of the stories in which Pushkin created Russian prose... It is true poet's prose, absolutely clear, objective, unpretentious and penetrating' - Spectator

About Alexander Pushkin

Alexander Pushkin was born in 1799. He published his first poem when he was fifteen, and in 1820 his first long poem-Ruslan and Lyudmila-made him famous. His work, including the novel-in-verse Yevgeny Onegin, the poem The Bronze Horseman, the play Boris Godunov and the short story 'The Queen of Spades', has secured his place as one of the greatest writers, in any language, ever to have lived. He died aged just 37, having been wounded in a duel-Pushkin's 29th-by his brother-in-law.

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GOR012709691
9781782276388
1782276386
The Captain's Daughter: Essential Stories by Alexander Pushkin
Used - Very Good
Paperback
Pushkin Press
20210225
256
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