Complete Prose Tales

Informationen zum Autor Aleksandr Sergeyevitch Pushkin was born in 1799 in Moscow. He began writing poetry at a young age and was expelled from St Petersburg in 1820 for composing revolutionary epigrams. He also lost his job in the civil service in 1824 because of his writing,. He married Natalia Goncharova in 1832 and died in a duel defending her honour in 1837. He is considered Russia's greatest poet but in the last part of his career focussed his attention on writing his prose tales. Klappentext A definitive modern translation of Pushkin's enjoyable stories - the only edition featuring all of his prose fiction. Zusammenfassung Beyond his perfect expression of Russian mood, Pushkin's universality of vision has made him a permanent place in the history of world literature. This translation contains his prose fiction, including some tales which remained unfinished when Pushkin was tragically killed in a duel at the age of thirty-seven.

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• Authors: Alekandr Sergeevich Pushkin, Aleksandr Sergeevich Pushkin, Alexander Pushkin, Alexandr Sergeyevitch Pushkin
• Assisted by: Gillon Aitken (Translation), Gillon (Translator) Aitken (Translation), Gillon R. Aitken (Translation), Aitken Gillon (Translation)
• Publisher: Vintage UK
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 02.10.2008
• EAN: 9780099529477
• ISBN: 978-0-09-952947-7
• No. of pages: 544
• Dimensions: 129 mm x 198 mm x 34 mm
• Series: Vintage Classics; Vintage Classics
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; FICTION / General, FICTION / Short Stories (single author), Short Stories, Modern and contemporary fiction, Modern and contemporary Fiction (post 1945), fiction; vintage classics; vladimir nabokov