The captain's daughter : essential stories / Alexander Pushkin ; translated from the Russian by Anthony Briggs.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Pushkin, Aleksandr Sergeevich, 1799-1837, author.

Contributor:

Briggs, Anthony, translator.

Standardized Title:

Captain's daughter (Compilation)

Language:

English

Russian

Subjects (All):

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

Pushkin, Aleksandr Sergeevich.

Pushkin, Aleksandr Sergeevich, 1799-1837.

Russian fiction.

Short stories, Russian.

Genre:

short stories.

novellas.

Novellas.

Short stories.

Translations.

Physical Description:

252 pages ; 17 cm

Place of Publication:

London : Pushkin Press, 2021.

Language Note:

Translated from the Russian.

Summary:

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.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: The Captain's Daughter

The Stationmaster.

Notes:

'The Stationmaster' and 'The Queen of Spades' previously published by Pushin Press in The Queen of Spades and Selected Works (2012).

Contains:

Container of: Pushkin, Aleksandr Sergeevich, 1799-1837. Kapitanskai︠a︡ dochka. English

Container of: Pushkin, Aleksandr Sergeevich, 1799-1837. Stant͡sionnyĭ smotritelʹ. English.

Container of: Pushkin, Aleksandr Sergeevich, 1799-1837. Pikovai︠a︡ dama. English

ISBN:

9781782276388

1782276386

OCLC:

1253697033