Description
Product ID: | 9780140446753 |
Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
Country of Manufacture: | GB |
Title: | Tales of Belkin and Other Prose Writings |
Authors: | Author: Alexander Pushkin, Ronald Wilks |
Page Count: | 224 |
Subjects: | Literary essays, Literary essays, Anthologies: general, Classic fiction: general and literary, Anthologies (non-poetry), Classic fiction (pre c 1945) |
Description: | Select Guide Rating Portrays the Russian people. This title presents a series of interlinked stories including "The Shot", in which a duel is revisited after many years, and the grotesque "The Undertaker". It also features "Roslavlev" and the "Egyptian Nights". 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. |
Imprint Name: | Penguin Classics |
Publisher Name: | Penguin Books Ltd |
Country of Publication: | GB |
Publishing Date: | 1998-01-29 |