Tales of Belkin and other prose writings / Alexander Pushkin ; translated by Ronald Wilks ; with an introduction by John Bayley.

Format:

• Book

Author/Creator:

• Pushkin, Aleksandr Sergeevich, 1799-1837.

Contributor:

• Wilks, Ronald.
• Bayley, John, 1925-2015.
• Gotham Book Mart Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Series:

• Penguin classics

Standardized Title:

• Works. Selections. English. 1998

Language:

• English
• Russian

Subjects (All):

• Pushkin, Aleksandr Sergeevich, 1799-1837--Translations into English.
• Pushkin, Aleksandr Sergeevich, 1799-1837.

Genre:

• Fiction.

Penn Provenance:

• Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)

Physical Description:

xxi, 194 pages : 1 facsimile ; 20 cm.

Place of Publication:

London : Penguin Books ; New York : Penguin Books USA, 1998.

Summary:

Alexander Pushkin was Russia's first genius in poetry and prose, who, according to Dostoyevsky, "showed us a whole gallery of genuinely beautiful Russian characters which he discovered in the Russian people". After completing his epic poem Eugene Onegin, Pushkin retired to his family's house in the country at Boldino in 1830, where he produced his first prose masterpiece, Tales of Belkin. These stories are wonderful in their purity of form, humor, and understatement. This collection also contains a selection of his other writings, including the novel fragment "Roslavlev", "Egyptian Nights", and Pushkin's autobiographical "Journey to Arzrum".

Contents:

• The tales of the late Ivan Petrovich Belkin
• The history of the village of Goryukhino
• Roslavlev
• Kirdzhali : a tale
• Egyptian nights
• A journey to Arzrum at the time of the 1829 campaign
• Notes.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (page xx).

ISBN:

0140446753

OCLC:

39279050