The Queen of Spades / The Shot / The Snowstorm / The Undertaker / The Postmaster / An Amateur Peasant Girl
by Alexander Pushkin 
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Six masterpieces of the genre include title story plus ""An Amateur Peasant Girl,"" ""The Shot,"" ""The Snowstorm,"" ""The Postmaster,"" and ""The Coffin-Maker - all fascinating portraits of life in Tsarist Russia by one of that country's greatest poets and most influential writers.
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Aleksandr Sergeyevich Pushkin, one of Russian's greatest poets, was born in Moscow on June 6, 1799. He studied Latin and French literature at the Lyceum. Pushkin was often in conflict with the government and was kept under surveillance for much of his later life. He was also exiled for a period of time. His works include Eugene Onegin and Ruslan show more and Ludmila. Pushkin died on February 10, 1837 in St. Petersburg of a wound received during a duel protecting the honor of his wife. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
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- The Queen of Spades / The Shot / The Snowstorm / The Undertaker / The Postmaster / An Amateur Peasant Girl
- Original publication date
- 1834: The Queen of Spades; 1831: The Tales of the Late Ivan Petrovich Belkin
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- Contains : The Queen of Spades / The Shot / The Snowstorm / The Undertaker / The Postmaster / An Amateur Peasant Girl. Only combine with collections of similar contents.
This work page is for the Dover Thrift edition of The Queen of Spades and other Stories. It comprises:
The Queen of Spades
The Amateur Peasant Girl
The Shot
The Snowstorm
The Postmaster
The Coffin... (show all)-maker
Please do not combine this with other collections, such as the Penguin Classics volume, which include different tales. Thank you.
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- 891.733 — Literature & rhetoric Asian Literature East Indo-European and Celtic literatures Russian and East Slavic languages Russian fiction 1800–1917
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- PG3347 .A2 — Language and Literature Slavic languages and literatures. Baltic languages. Albanian language Slavic. Baltic. Albanian Russian literature Individual authors and works 1800-1870 Pushkin
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