Captain''s Daughter - Essential Stories

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 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; 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.

Summary

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

Product details

• Authors: Anthony Briggs, Alexander Pushkin, Alexander (Author) Pushkin
• Assisted by: Anthony Briggs (Translation), Anthony (Translator) Briggs (Translation), Briggs Anthony (Translation)
• Publisher: Pushkin Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.06.2021
• EAN: 9781782276388
• ISBN: 978-1-78227-638-8
• No. of pages: 256
• Series: Pushkin Collection; Essential Stories
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; FICTION / Short Stories (single author), FICTION / Classics, Classic fiction (pre c 1945), Short Stories, Classic fiction: general and literary