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Tales of Belkin and other prose writings, Alexander Pushkin ; translated by Ronald Wilks with an introduction by John Bayley

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Tales of Belkin and other prose writings, Alexander Pushkin ; translated by Ronald Wilks with an introduction by John Bayley

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references (page xx)

Illustrations

facsimiles

Index

no index present

Literary Form

fiction

Main title

Tales of Belkin and other prose writings

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

39279050

Responsibility statement

Alexander Pushkin ; translated by Ronald Wilks with an introduction by John Bayley

Series statement

Penguin classics

Summary

Alexander Pushkin was Russia's first true literary genius, a writer of compelling poetry and sparling prose that revealed his national culture with elegance and understated humor. His gift for portraying the Russian people is shown in the Tales of Belkin, his first prose masterpiece, which is a series of interlinked stories narraged by a good-hearted Russian sqshuire. Also, in this volume, works such as the novel-fragment Roslavlev and Egyptian nights, the tale of an Italian balladeer seeing an audience in St Petersburg, demonstrate the wide range of Pushkin's fiction. A Journey to Arzrum, the final piece in the collection, offers an autobiographical account of Pushkin's experiences in the 1829 war between Russian and Turkey, and remains one of the greatest of all pieces of journalistic adventure writing

Target audience

adult

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Tales of Belkin

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