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Belkin's Stories by Alexander Pushkin
Category: Accessories
First published in 1831, Belkin's Stories was the first completed work of fiction by the founding father of Russian literature. Through a series of interlinked stories purporting to have been told by various narrators to the recently deceased country squire Ivan Belkin, Pushkin offers his own variation ...Show more
Boris Godunov - Mozart and Salieri and a Stone Guest by Alexander Pushkin; Stephen Mulrine (Translator)
Category: Classics | Series: Absolute Classics Ser.
Following the death of Ivan the Terrible, Boris Godunov becomes regent for the feeble-minded Tsar Fyodor, after the original heir to the throne, the boy-prince Dimitri, dies mysteriously. It is widely rumored that mad Boris murdered the boy, and when a renegade monk later appears claiming to be Dimitri, ...Show more
Boris Godunov and Little Tragedies: Newly translated and Annotated by Alexander Pushkin
Category: Classics
A tale of intrigue, deception, murder and retribution, 'Boris Godunov'; charts the rise and fall of an ambitious prince who cannot avoid facing the consequences of his dark past. Based on the historical figure of the nobleman Boris Godunov, who seized power from Ivan the Terrible's successor in sixteent ...Show more
COLLECTED ALEXANDER PUSHKIN by Alexander Pushkin; John Bayley (Introduction by); Paul Debreczeny (Translator)
Category: Fiction | Series: Everyman's Library Classics Ser.
Pushkin's prose tales are the foundation stones on which the great novels of Turgenev, Tolstoy, and Dostoevsky were built, but they are also brilliant and fascinating in their own right. In both prose and verse, Pushkin was one of the world's great storytellers: direct and dramatic, clear-sighted, viv ...Show more
Eugene Onegin by Alexander Pushkin
Category: Fiction | Series: Alma Classics Evergreens
When the world-weary dandy Eugene Onegin moves from St Petersburg to take up residence in the country estate he has inherited, he strikes up an unlikely friendship with his neighbour, the poet Vladimir Lensky. Coldly rejecting the amorous advances of Tatyana and cynically courting her sister Olga - Lens ...Show more
Eugene Onegin: A Novel in Verse by Alexander Pushkin; Stanley Mitchell (translator)
Category: Gift | Series: Penguin Classics
When the world-weary dandy Eugene Onegin moves from St Petersburg to take up residence in the country estate he has inherited, he strikes up an unlikely friendship with his neighbour, the poet Vladimir Lensky. Coldly rejecting the amorous advances of Tatyana and cynically courting her sister Olga - Lens ...Show more
Eugene Onegin - A Novel in Verse by Alexander Pushkin; Henry Spalding (Translator)
Category: Fiction
A powerful love story set in the class-conscious Tsarist Russia of the early 19th century. It embraces every level of that society - serf, provincial, aristocrat - in verse which is by turns beautiful, witty, wickedly perceptive and always readable. It traces the lives of two young people from childhoo ...Show more
Eugene Onegin - A Novel in Verse by Alexander Pushkin; James E. Falen (Translator)
Category: Classics | Series: Oxford World's Classics Ser.
Excerpt from Eugene Oneguine: A Romance of Russian Life in Verse Eugene oneguine, the chief poetical work of Russia's greatest poet, having been translated into all the principal languages of Europe except our own, I hope that this version may prove an acceptable contri bution to literature. Tastes ...Show more
Love Poems by Alexander Pushkin
Category: Gift
A selection of the very finest love poems from the master of the genre, in a lavishly produced edition "The wondrous moment of our meeting . . .I well remember you appear. Before me like a vision fleeting, A beauty's angel pure and clear." One of the many aspects of Alexander Pushkin's immense contribut ...Show more
Lyrics: Volume 2 (1817-24) by Alexander Pushkin
Category: Classics
The founding father of modern Russian literature, Alexander Pushkin has exerted - through his novel in verse Eugene Onegin, his plays, his short stories and his narrative poetry - a long-lasting influence well beyond the borders of his motherland. A slightly lesser-known, but by no mean less important a ...Show more
Lyrics Volume 3 - (1824-30) by Alexander Pushkin
Category: Classics
The founding father of modern Russian literature, Alexander Pushkin has exerted - through his novel in verseEugene Onegin, his plays, his short stories and his narrative poetry - a long-lasting influence well beyond the borders of his motherland. A slightly lesser-known, but by no mean less important as ...Show more
Lyrics Volume 4 - 1830-37 by Alexander Pushkin
Category: Classics
The founding father of modern Russian literature, Alexander Pushkin has exerted--through his novel in verse Eugene Onegin, his plays, his short stories and his narrative poetry--a long-lasting influence well beyond the borders of his motherland. A slightly lesser-known, but by no mean less important asp ...Show more