<DIV><p><B><I>The Queen of Spades and Selected Works</I> is a brand new English translation of two of Alexander Pushkin's greatest short stories, 'The Queen of Spades' and 'The Stationmaster', together with the poem 'The Bronze Horseman', extracts from <I>Yevgeny Onegin</I> and <I>Boris Godunov</I>, and a selection of his poetic work.</B></p><p>'The Queen of Spades' ('Pikovaya dama'), originally published in Russian in 1834, is one of the most famous tales in Russian literature, and inspired the eponymous opera by Tchaikovsky; in 'The Stationmaster' ('Stantsionnyy smotritel'), originally published in Russian in <I>The Tales of the Late Ivan Petrovich Belkin</I> (<I>Povesti pokoynogo Ivana Petrovicha Belkina</I>) in 1830, he reworks the parable of the Prodigal Son; the hugely entertaining 'Tsar Nikita and his Forty Daughters' is a bawdier early poem; and the deeply moving narrative poem 'The Bronze Horseman', inspired by a St Petersburg statue of Peter the Great, is one of his most influential works. The volume also includes a selection of his best lyric poetry.</p><p>Translated by Anthony Briggs, <I>The Queen of Spades and Selected Works</I> is the perfect introduction to Alexander Pushkin's finest work.</p><p><B>Contents:</B></p><ul><li>'The Queen of Spades'</li><li>'The Stationmaster'</li><li>Extract from <I>Boris Godunov</I></li><li>Extract from<I>Mozart and Salieri</I></li><li>'The Bronze Horseman'</li><li>'Tsar Nikita and His Forty Daughters'</li><li>Extract from <I>Yevgeny Onegin</I></li><li>Fourteen lyric poems</li></ul><p><B>Alexander Sergeyevich Pushkin</B> ranks as one of Russia's greatest writers. Born in 1799, he published his first poem when he was a teenager, and attained fame in 1820 with his first long poem, <I>Ruslan and Lyudmila</I>. In the late 1820s he found himself the target of government censors, unable to travel or publish at will; during this time, he wrote his most famous play, <I>Boris Godunov</I>, and <I>Yevgeny Onegin</I> (published 1825-1832). 'The Queen of Spades', his most famous prose work, was published in 1834; his best-known poem, 'The Bronze Horseman', appeared after his death (from a wound sustained in a duel) in 1837.</p><p><B>Anthony Briggs</B> is one of the world's leading authorities on the work of Pushkin, author of <I>Alexander Pushkin: A Critical Study</I> and editor of <I>Alexander Pushkin: A Celebration of Russia's Best-Loved Writer</I>. He is also an acclaimed translator from the Russian, whose translations include <I>War and Peace</I>, <I>The Death of Ivan Ilyich</I> and <I>Resurrection</I> by Leo Tolstoy.</p></DIV>