The Queen Of Spades And Other Stories Illustrated Edition

Author : Alexander Pushkin
Publisher : Echo Library
ISBN 13 : 9781406885996
Total Pages : 136 pages
Book Rating : 4.91/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Queen of Spades and Other Stories (Illustrated Edition) written by Alexander Pushkin and published by Echo Library. This book was released on 2017-10-12 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Author : Alexander Pushkin
Publisher : Library of Alexandria
ISBN 13 : 1465616497
Total Pages : 317 pages
Book Rating : 4.94/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Queen of Spades and other Stories written by Alexander Pushkin and published by Library of Alexandria. This book was released on 2020-09-28 with total page 317 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Author : Alexander Pushkin
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781463751265
Total Pages : 48 pages
Book Rating : 4.65/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Queen of Spades (Illustrated) written by Alexander Pushkin and published by . This book was released on 2011-07-23 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Queen of Spades is a famous short story by Alexander Pushkin about the unpredictable quirks of fate. Hermann, an officer in the Imperial Russian army, learns a story about an old countess: many years ago she lost a fortune at cards, and then won it back with the secret of the three winning cards, which she learned from the notorious Count of St. Germain. Hermann becomes obsessed with obtaining the secret.The book contains 14 black and white illustrations by Alexandre Benois.

Author : Aleksandr Sergeevic Puskin
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 169 pages
Book Rating : 4.47/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Queen of Spades and Other Stories written by Aleksandr Sergeevic Puskin and published by . This book was released on 2022 with total page 169 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Aleksandr Pushkin
Publisher : BoD - Books on Demand
ISBN 13 : 2322461490
Total Pages : 87 pages
Book Rating : 4.93/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Daughter of the Commandant written by Aleksandr Pushkin and published by BoD - Books on Demand. This book was released on 2022-12-08 with total page 87 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pyotr Andreyich Grinyov is the only surviving child of a retired army officer. When Pyotr turns 17, his father sends him into military service in Orenburg. En route Pyotr gets lost in a blizzard, but is rescued by a mysterious man. As a token of his gratitude, Pyotr gives the guide his hareskin jacket. Arriving in Orenburg, Pyotr reports to his commanding officer and is assigned to serve at Belogorsky fortress under captain Ivan Mironov. The fortress is nothing more than a fence around a village, and the captain's wife Vasilisa is really in charge.

Author : Aleksandr Sergeevich Pushkin
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 318 pages
Book Rating : 4.89/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Queen of Spades written by Aleksandr Sergeevich Pushkin and published by . This book was released on 1892 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Robert Chandler
Publisher : Penguin UK
ISBN 13 : 0141910240
Total Pages : 416 pages
Book Rating : 4.46/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Russian Short Stories from Pushkin to Buida written by Robert Chandler and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2005-05-26 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the reign of the Tsars in the early 19th century to the collapse of the Soviet Union and beyond, the short story has long occupied a central place in Russian culture. Included are pieces from many of the acknowledged masters of Russian literature - including Pushkin, Turgenev, Dostoyevsky, Tolstoy, and Solzhenitsyn - alongside tales by long-suppressed figures such as the subversive Kryzhanowsky and the surrealist Shalamov. Whether written in reaction to the cruelty of the bourgeoisie, the bureaucracy of communism or the torture of the prison camps, they offer a wonderfully wide-ranging and exciting representation of one of the most vital and enduring forms of Russian literature.

Author : Alice Randall
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN 13 : 9780618562053
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.52/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Pushkin and the Queen of Spades written by Alice Randall and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 2004 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Windsor Armstrong is a polished, Harvard-educated African American professor of Russian literature. Her son, Pushkin X, is an exceedingly famous pro football player, an achievement that impresses his mother not at all. Even more distressing, however, her beloved son has just become engaged to a gorgeous white Russian emigre who also happens to be a lap dancer." "For Windsor this predicament is no laughing matter. Determined to get to the bottom of it, she embarks on a journey into her own rich past to her Motown childhood, where the Temptations danced across the stage and love came disguised as a sharply dressed gangster; to Harvard, where she endured the humiliation of being an unwed black teen mother; to St. Petersburg, where the verses of the brilliant Russian poet Alexander Pushkin, great-grandson of an African slave, moved through her head as she made love to her own white Russian. The urge to protect her son has been Windsor's only goal, but as she draws ever closer to the secret that has cast a shadow over her life, the identity of her son's father, she discovers that the half-lies she has fed her boy don't add up to the beauty of the truth."--BOOK JACKET.

Author : Aleksandr Pushkin
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781521162064
Total Pages : 37 pages
Book Rating : 4.69/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Queen of Spades (illustrated) written by Aleksandr Pushkin and published by . This book was released on 2017-04-26 with total page 37 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Although Pushkin is best known for his poetry, he switched to writing prose almost exclusively in the years before his death in a duel in 1837. Written in 1834, "The Queen of Spades" shows Pushkin at his story-telling best; in a fairly sparse narrative, Pushkin conveys the deep emotions and drives of his characters. Hermann, a bourgeois ethnic German in the Russian Army, surrounds himself with the opulent Russian aristocracy. He begins the novel wary of gambling, knowing that he does not have the funds to lose at the card table. After hearing of a secret method of winning at Faro, however, he becomes obsessed with the game, willing to do anything to win, with no regard to life and death. The story has become so famous due to the emotional tension and unresolved supernatural elements; Dostoevsky called it "the pinnacle of the art of the fantastic," and Tchaikovsky would later create one of his most famous operas based on it. The story remains a powerful critique of greed and ambition to this day.

Author : Aleksandr Sergeevich Pushkin
Publisher : CROOME & CO
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 94 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Queen of Spades and other stories written by Aleksandr Sergeevich Pushkin and published by CROOME & CO. This book was released on 2017-07-04 with total page 94 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Alexander Sergueievitch Pushkin came of a noble family, so ancient that it was traced back to that Alexander Nevsky who, in the thirteenth century, gained a great victory over the Swedes upon the ice of the River Neva, in token whereof he was surnamed "Nevsky" of the Neva. His mother, Nadejda Ossipovna Hannibal, was the grand-daughter of Abraham Petrovitch Hannibal, Peter the Great's famous negro. His father, Surguei Lvovitch Pushkin, was a frivolous man of pleasure. The poet was born on the 26th of May, 1799, at Moscow. He was an awkward and a silent child. He was educated by French tutors. A poor scholar, he read with eagerness whatever he could get in his father's library, chiefly the works of French authors. His brother states that at eleven years old Pushkin knew French literature by heart. This cannot, of course, be taken[Pg 2] literally; but it shows under what influence he grew up. In October, 1811, he entered the Lyceum of Tsarskoe Selo. Among the students a society was soon formed, whose members were united by friendship and by a taste for literature. They brought out several periodicals, in which tales and poems formed the chief features. Of this society (the late Prince Gortchakoff belonged to it) Pushkin was the leading spirit. His first printed poem appeared in the Messenger of Europe in 1814. At a public competition in 1815, at which the veteran poet Derjavin was present, Pushkin read his "Memories of Tsarskoe Selo." This poem, which contains many beautiful passages, so delighted Derjavin, that he wished to embrace the young author; but Pushkin fled in confusion from the hall. In June, 1817, Pushkin's free and careless student life ended. After finishing his course at the Lyceum he went to St. Petersburg, and, though he entered thoroughly into the dissipated pleasures of its turbulent youth, he still clung to the intellectual society of such men as Jukovsky and Karamsin, men occupied in literature, whose friendship he valued very highly. At that time society was much disturbed. Political clubs were everywhere being formed. In every drawing-room new views were freely and openly advanced; and in these discussions the[Pg 3] satire and brilliant verse of Pushkin attracted general attention. These at last brought him into great danger. But Karamsin came to his rescue, and managed to get him an appointment at Ekaterinoslavl, in the office of the Chief Inspector of the Southern Settlements. There he remained till 1824, travelling from place to place, first with the Raevskys to the Caucasus, and thence again with them through the Crimea. This journey gave him materials for his "Prisoner of the Caucasus," and "Fountain of Bachtchisarai." Both poems reveal the influence of Byron. Towards the end of 1820 he went to Bessarabia with his chief, who had just been appointed viceroy of the province. Once, on account of some quarrel, this person, Insoff by name, sent Pushkin to Ismail. There the poet joined a band of gypsies and remained with them for some time in the Steppes. In 1823 he went to Odessa, having been transferred to the office of the new governor-general, Count Vorontsoff, who succeeded Insoff. Here he wrote part of "Evguenie Onegin," a sort of Russian "Don Juan," full of sublime passages and varied by satire and bitter scorn. This work has lately been formed the subject of a very successful opera by Tchaikovski, who took from Pushkin's poems a story now known and admired by every educated Russian. The poet, however, did not get on with his new[Pg 4] chief. A scathing epigram upon Vorontsoff led the count to ask for Pushkin's removal from Odessa, "where," he said, "excessive flattery had turned the young maids head." To be continue in this ebook...