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"The Queen of Spades" is one of the most famous tales in Russian literature, and inspired the eponymous opera by Tchaikovsky; in "The Stationmaster", from The Tales of the Late Ivan Petrovich Belkin, Pushkin reworks the parable of the Prodigal Son; "Tsar Nikita and his Forty Daughters" is one of Pushkin's bawdier early poems; and the narrative poem "The Bronze Horseman", inspired by a St Petersburg statue of Peter the Great, is one of Pushkin's best-known and most influential works. The volume also includes a selection of Pushkin's best lyric poetry. Contents: . Short Stories: The Queen of Spades; The Stationmaster . Drama: Extracts from Boris Godunov and Mozart and Salieri . The Bronze Horseman (narrative poem), Tsar Nikita and His Forty Daughters (folk poem) and 14 lyric poems . Novel in Verse: Extract from Yevgeny Onegin (novel in verse)

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Book category Books in English Literature & literary studies Poetry Poetry by individual poets

• Full title: Queen of Spades and Selected Works
• Author: Pietro Grossi
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 160
• EAN: 9781908968036
• ISBN: 1908968036
• ID: 01228714
• Publisher: Pushkin Press
• Weight: 168 g
• Dimensions: 166 × 124 × 15 mm
• Date of publishing: 22. November 2012

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