Alexander Pushkin
The Prose Tales of Alexander Poushkin
1916 · 482 pages · Also in this volume: «The Captain’s Daughter», «Dubrovsky», «The Queen of Spades», «The Shot», «The Snowstorm», «The Postmaster», «The Coffin-Maker», «Peter the Great’s Negro»
- Author
- Alexander Pushkin
- Edition
- Translated by T. Keane; Bohn’s Standard Library reprint of 1916 (first published 1894)
- Published
- London, G. Bell and Sons, Ltd., 1916
- Pages
- 482
- File
- DjVu, 14.4 MB
- Text search
- yes
- Rights
- public domain
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About the book
Alexander Pushkin, Russia’s national poet, also wrote a small body of prose that laid the foundations of Russian fiction. This volume gathers most of his tales, finished and unfinished. The longest piece, The Captain’s Daughter (1836), is a short historical novel set during Pugachev’s peasant rebellion of the 1770s, in which a young officer’s honour and his love for the commandant’s daughter are tested amid the violence. Dubrovsky, left unfinished and published after Pushkin’s death, tells of a nobleman robbed of his estate who turns outlaw.
The Queen of Spades (1834) is a cool, unsettling tale of a gambler obsessed with an old countess’s secret of three winning cards. The Tales of Belkin (1831) are here as separate stories — “The Shot”, “The Snowstorm”, “The Postmaster”, “The Coffin-Maker” and “An Amateur Peasant Girl” — together with “Kirdjali”, the fragment “The Egyptian Nights” and the unfinished novel about Pushkin’s African great-grandfather, Peter the Great’s Negro.
Thomas Keane’s translation was first published by George Bell & Sons in 1894 and kept in print for many years in Bohn’s Standard Library.
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About this edition
Thomas Keane’s translation as reprinted in London by G. Bell and Sons, Ltd. in 1916; the verso of the title page reads ‘First published, April 1894’ and ‘Reprinted in Bohn’s Standard Library, 1896, 1911, 1916’. The book has a contents list and was printed by Morrison & Gibb in Edinburgh. The scan was digitised by Microsoft from a University of California copy; the binding is tight, so the first letter of the author’s name is cut off on the title page. It has a searchable text layer.
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