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The Queen Of Spades And Other Russian Stories
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Author : Alexander Pushkin
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2011-01
The Queen Of Spades And Other Russian Stories written by Alexander Pushkin and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-01 with Foreign Language Study categories.
This Dual Language Reader uses a magnificent collection of Russia's greatest short stories, written by Anton Chekhov, Alexander Pushkin, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, and Nikolai Gogol, to engage the reader. The Russian (Cyrillic) text is on the right and the English translation on the left, so readers are able to comprehend the ideas being conveyed without turning a page.
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Author : Alexander Pushkin
language : en
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Release Date : 2017-07-03
The Queen Of Spades written by Alexander Pushkin and has been published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-07-03 with categories.
A collection of a number of very telling novellas and short stories by one of Russia's favorite writer.
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Author : Alexander Pushkin
language : en
Publisher: Library of Alexandria
Release Date : 2020-09-28
The Queen Of Spades And Other Stories written by Alexander Pushkin and has been published by Library of Alexandria this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-09-28 with categories.
There was a card party at the rooms of Narumoff, a lieutenant in the Horse Guards. A long winter night had passed unnoticed, and it was five o'clock in the morning when supper was served. The winners sat down to table with an excellent appetite; the losers let their plates remain empty before them. Little by little, however, with the assistance of the champagne, the conversation became animated, and was shared by all. "How did you get on this evening, Surin?" said the host to one of his friends. "Oh, I lost, as usual. I really have no luck. I play mirandole. You know that I keep cool. Nothing moves me; I never change my play, and yet I always lose." "Do you mean to say that all the evening you did not once back the red? Your firmness of character surprises me." "What do you think of Hermann?" said one of the party, pointing to a young Engineer officer. "That fellow never made a bet or touched a card in his life, and yet he watches us playing until five in the morning." "It interests me," said Hermann; "but I am not disposed to risk the necessary in view of the superfluous." "Hermann is a German, and economical; that is the whole of the secret," cried Tomski. "But what is really astonishing is the Countess Anna Fedotovna!" "How so?" asked several voices. "Have you not remarked," said Tomski, "that she never plays?" "Yes," said Narumoff, "a woman of eighty, who never touches a card; that is indeed something extraordinary!" "You do not know why?" "No; is there a reason for it?" "Just listen. My grandmother, you know, some sixty years ago, went to Paris, and became the rage there. People ran after her in the streets, and called her the 'Muscovite Venus.' Richelieu made love to her, and my grandmother makes out that, by her rigorous demeanour, she almost drove him to suicide. In those days women used to play at faro. One evening at the court she lost, on parole,to the Duke of Orleans, a very considerable sum. When she got home, my grandmother removed her beauty spots, took off her hoops, and in this tragic costume went to my grandfather, told him of her misfortune, and asked him for the money she had to pay. My grandfather, now no more, was, so to say, his wife's steward. He feared her like fire; but the sum she named made him leap into the air. He flew into a rage, made a brief calculation, and proved to my grandmother that in six months she had got through half a million rubles. He told her plainly that he had no villages to sell in Paris, his domains being situated in the neighbourhood of Moscow and of Saratoff; and finally refused point blank. You may imagine the fury of my grandmother. She boxed his ears, and passed the night in another room.
The Queen Of Spades
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Author : Alexander Pushkin
language : en
Publisher: Penguin UK
Release Date : 2016-03-03
The Queen Of Spades written by Alexander Pushkin and has been published by Penguin UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-03-03 with Fiction categories.
'Hermann waited for the appointed hour like a tiger trembling for its prey.' One of Pushkin's most popular and chilling stories, 'The Queen of Spades' tells of a young man who develops a dangerous obsession in pursuit of the wealth he craves. One of 46 new books in the bestselling Little Black Classics series, to celebrate the first ever Penguin Classic in 1946. Each book gives readers a taste of the Classics' huge range and diversity, with works from around the world and across the centuries - including fables, decadence, heartbreak, tall tales, satire, ghosts, battles and elephants.
Queen Of Spades And Other Stories
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Author : Alexander Pushkin
language : en
Publisher: Alma Books
Release Date : 2018-01-01
Queen Of Spades And Other Stories written by Alexander Pushkin and has been published by Alma Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-01-01 with Fiction categories.
This collection of Pushkin's stories begins with 'The Queen of Spades', perhaps the most celebrated short story in Russian literature. The young Hermann, while watching some friends gambling, hears a rumour of how an officer's grandmother is always able to predict the three winning cards in a game. He becomes obsessed with the woman and her seemingly mystical powers, and seeks to extract the secret from her at any cost.This volume, part of a new series of the complete works of Pushkin in English, also includes 'Dubrovsky', the story of a man's desire to avenge himself after his land is unjustly taken from him by an aristocrat; 'The Negro of Peter the Great', a tale inspired by Pushkin's maternal grandfather; and the unfinished story 'Egyptian Nights', a meditation on poetry and the poet. Together, they represent some of the most striking and enduring pieces of Pushkin's prose fiction.
The Queen Of Spades And Other Stories Illustrated Edition
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Author : Alexander Pushkin
language : en
Publisher: Echo Library
Release Date : 2017-10-12
The Queen Of Spades And Other Stories Illustrated Edition written by Alexander Pushkin and has been published by Echo Library this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-10-12 with Fiction categories.
Pushkin (1799-1837) was a Russian poet, playwright and novelist of the Romantic era, considered to be his country's greatest poet and the founder of modern Russian literature. This English translation published in 1892 contains ten stories and also includes a biography of the author and several illlustrations.
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Author : Aleksandr Sergeevich Pushkin
language : en
Publisher: Library of Alexandria
Release Date : 1950
The Queen Of Spades written by Aleksandr Sergeevich Pushkin and has been published by Library of Alexandria this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1950 with categories.
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Author : Aleksandr Sergeevich Pushkin
language : en
Publisher: University Publishing House
Release Date : 1999-05-01
The Queen Of Spades And Other Stories written by Aleksandr Sergeevich Pushkin and has been published by University Publishing House this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1999-05-01 with Russia categories.
Celebrated title story plus "The Shot,""The Snowstorm," "The Coffin-Maker," "An Amateur Peasant Girl," and"The Postmaster" -- all fascinating portraits of life in Tsarist Russia by one of that country's greatest writers.
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Author : Aleksandr Sergeevich Pushkin
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1892
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Author : Aleksandr Sergeevic Puskin
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2022
The Queen Of Spades And Other Stories written by Aleksandr Sergeevic Puskin and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022 with Fiction categories.