The Collected Stories

Pushkin, Alexander

ISBN 10: 0375405496 / ISBN 13: 9780375405495

Published by Everyman's Library, 1999

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New Hardback in dustwrapper, clean and unmarked. 548 pp Hardback in dustwrapper. The image on this listing page is of the actual book for sale.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Collected Stories
• Publisher: Everyman's Library
• Publication Date: 1999
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0375405496
• ISBN 13: 9780375405495
• Binding: Hardcover
• Dust Jacket Condition: Dust Jacket Included
• Seller catalogs:
  • English Literature/Poetry/Drama

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Synopsis

 

Pushkin’s prose tales are the foundation stones on which the great novels of Turgenev, Tolstoy, and Dostoevsky were built, but they are also brilliant and fascinating in their own right. In both prose and verse, Pushkin was one of the world’s great storytellers: direct and dramatic, clear-sighted, vivid, and passionate.

 

This new and expanded Everyman’s edition of his stories includes all the mature work. In addition to such novella-length masterpieces as The Captain’s Daughter and The Tales of Belkin the collection now contains many more short pieces and the masterly History of Pugachev, a powerful account of the man who rebelled against Catherine the Great.  This version is translated by Paul Debreczeny and Walter Arndt.

About the Author

Alexander Pushkin (1799-1837) was a poet, playwright, and novelist who achieved literary prominence before he was twenty. His radical politics led to government censorship and periods of banishment from the capital, but he eventually married a popular society beauty and became a regular part of court life. Notoriously touchy about his honor, he died at age thirty-seven in a duel with his wife's alleged lover.