Captain''s Daughter Essential Stories

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

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.

Summary

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

Product details

• Authors: Alexander Pushkin, Anthony Briggs, Alexander (Author) Pushkin
• Assisted by: Anthony Briggs (Translation), Anthony (Translator) Briggs (Translation), Briggs Anthony (Translation)
• Publisher: Pushkin Press
• Content: Book
• Product form: Paperback / Softback
• Publication date: 30.06.2021
• Subject: Fiction > Narrative literature
• EAN: 9781782276388
• ISBN: 978-1-78227-638-8
• Pages: 256
• Series: Pushkin Collection; Essential Stories > 08
• Subjects: FICTION / Short Stories (single author), FICTION / Classics, Classic fiction (pre c 1945), Short Stories, Classic fiction: general and literary, War and Peace, russian classics, Tolstoy, Anthony Briggs, queen of spades, Pushkin Collection, Captain’s Daughter, classic Russian stories, best Pushkin translation