{"product_id":"9781847494788-the-queen-of-spades-and-other-stories","title":"The Queen of Spades and Other Stories","description":"\u003cmeta content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\" http-equiv=\"Content-Type\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eNewly Translated and Annotated - A collection of 18 most enduring pieces of Pushkin’s prose fiction.\u003cbr\u003eThis collection of Pushkin's shorter fiction contains a number of lesser-known works by Pushkin which are not easily available in English, including the novel Dubrovsky and the stories Egyptian Nights and Peter the Great's Negro.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eUnique collection of short stories\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis collection of Pushkin’s stories begins with ‘The Queen of Spades’, perhaps the most celebrated short story in Russian literature. The young Hermann, while watching some friends gambling, hears a rumour of how an officer’s grandmother is always able to predict the three winning cards in a game. He becomes obsessed with the woman and her seemingly mystical powers, and seeks to extract the secret from her at any cost.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis volume, part of a new series of the complete works of Pushkin in English, also includes ‘Dubrovsky’, the story of a man’s desire to avenge himself after his land is unjustly taken from him by an aristocrat; ‘The Negro of Peter the Great’, a tale inspired by Pushkin’s maternal grandfather; and the unfinished story ‘Egyptian Nights’, a meditation on poetry and the poet. Together, they represent some of the most striking and enduring pieces of Pushkin’s prose fiction.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rarewaves","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56449864073590,"sku":"9781847494788","price":9.08,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0092\/7504\/8033\/files\/orig_27480282.jpg?v=1760446806","url":"https:\/\/www.rarewaves.com\/products\/9781847494788-the-queen-of-spades-and-other-stories","provider":"Rarewaves.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}