| Tales of Belkin and Other Prose Writings Contributor(s): Pushkin, Alexander (Author), Wilks, Ronald (Translator), Bayley, John (Introduction by) |
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ISBN: 0140446753 ISBN-13: 9780140446753 Publisher: Penguin Group OUR PRICE: $14.40 Product Type: Paperback Published: July 1998 Annotation: 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". |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Classics - Fiction | Short Stories (single Author) |
| Dewey: FIC |
| LCCN: 98167584 |
| Series: Penguin Classics |
| Physical Information: 0.6" H x 5" W x 7.7" (0.35 lbs) 224 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Prose writings from one of Russia's greatest poets These stories are wonderful in their purity of form, humor, and understatement. This collection also contains a selection of other Pushkin writings, including the fragment Roslavlev, Egyptian Nights, and the autobiographical Journey to Arzrum. For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators. |