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The Queen of Spades and Other Stories

Author : Aleksandr Sergeevic Puskin
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 169 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2022
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9791259912947

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The Queen of Spades and other Stories

Author : Alexander Pushkin
Publisher : Library of Alexandria
Page : 317 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2020-09-28
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781465616494

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There was a card party at the rooms of Narumoff, a lieutenant in the Horse Guards. A long winter night had passed unnoticed, and it was five o'clock in the morning when supper was served. The winners sat down to table with an excellent appetite; the losers let their plates remain empty before them. Little by little, however, with the assistance of the champagne, the conversation became animated, and was shared by all. "How did you get on this evening, Surin?" said the host to one of his friends. "Oh, I lost, as usual. I really have no luck. I play mirandole. You know that I keep cool. Nothing moves me; I never change my play, and yet I always lose." "Do you mean to say that all the evening you did not once back the red? Your firmness of character surprises me." "What do you think of Hermann?" said one of the party, pointing to a young Engineer officer. "That fellow never made a bet or touched a card in his life, and yet he watches us playing until five in the morning." "It interests me," said Hermann; "but I am not disposed to risk the necessary in view of the superfluous." "Hermann is a German, and economical; that is the whole of the secret," cried Tomski. "But what is really astonishing is the Countess Anna Fedotovna!" "How so?" asked several voices. "Have you not remarked," said Tomski, "that she never plays?" "Yes," said Narumoff, "a woman of eighty, who never touches a card; that is indeed something extraordinary!" "You do not know why?" "No; is there a reason for it?" "Just listen. My grandmother, you know, some sixty years ago, went to Paris, and became the rage there. People ran after her in the streets, and called her the 'Muscovite Venus.' Richelieu made love to her, and my grandmother makes out that, by her rigorous demeanour, she almost drove him to suicide. In those days women used to play at faro. One evening at the court she lost, on parole,to the Duke of Orleans, a very considerable sum. When she got home, my grandmother removed her beauty spots, took off her hoops, and in this tragic costume went to my grandfather, told him of her misfortune, and asked him for the money she had to pay. My grandfather, now no more, was, so to say, his wife's steward. He feared her like fire; but the sum she named made him leap into the air. He flew into a rage, made a brief calculation, and proved to my grandmother that in six months she had got through half a million rubles. He told her plainly that he had no villages to sell in Paris, his domains being situated in the neighbourhood of Moscow and of Saratoff; and finally refused point blank. You may imagine the fury of my grandmother. She boxed his ears, and passed the night in another room.

Queen of Spades

Author : Michael Shou-Yung Shum
Publisher : Forest Avenue Press
Page : 233 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2017-10-10
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781942436331

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Queen of Spades by Michael Shou-Yung Shum Pdf

Queen of Spades revamps the classic Pushkin fable of the same name, transplanted to a mysterious Seattle-area casino populated by a pit boss with six months to live, a dealer obsessing over the mysterious methods of an elderly customer known as the Countess, and a recovering gambler who finds herself trapped in a cultish twelve-step program. With a breathtaking climax that rivals the best Hong Kong gambling movies, Michael Shou-Yung Shum's debut novel delivers the thrilling highs and lows that come when we cede control of our futures to the roll of the dice and the turn of a card.

The Queen of Spades

Author : Aleksandr Sergeevich Pushkin
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 318 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 1892
Category : Electronic
ISBN : CHI:13668989

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Pushkin and the Queen of Spades

Author : Alice Randall
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0618562052

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Pushkin and the Queen of Spades by Alice Randall Pdf

"Windsor Armstrong is a polished, Harvard-educated African American professor of Russian literature. Her son, Pushkin X, is an exceedingly famous pro football player, an achievement that impresses his mother not at all. Even more distressing, however, her beloved son has just become engaged to a gorgeous white Russian emigre who also happens to be a lap dancer." "For Windsor this predicament is no laughing matter. Determined to get to the bottom of it, she embarks on a journey into her own rich past to her Motown childhood, where the Temptations danced across the stage and love came disguised as a sharply dressed gangster; to Harvard, where she endured the humiliation of being an unwed black teen mother; to St. Petersburg, where the verses of the brilliant Russian poet Alexander Pushkin, great-grandson of an African slave, moved through her head as she made love to her own white Russian. The urge to protect her son has been Windsor's only goal, but as she draws ever closer to the secret that has cast a shadow over her life, the identity of her son's father, she discovers that the half-lies she has fed her boy don't add up to the beauty of the truth."--BOOK JACKET.

Queen of Spades

Author : Queen Co. Meadows The Hoodoo Queen
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 86 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2020-07-23
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9798663453790

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Queen of Spades by Queen Co. Meadows The Hoodoo Queen Pdf

Queen of Spades is the medium that connects the descendants ofenslaved Africans to their traditional spirituality, their magic, andthe customs of their people.This is traditional African American conjure, best known asHoodoo, coming directly from its descendants, from a family that isknown throughout the Americas and West Indies, documentedsince we have been enslaved in the western hemisphere.This book will give the descendants of these people a look intowho we were before slavery. With recipes to reshape the presentreality, this book gives you the tools to gain clarity and the answersneeded for the darkness in your life. This book is true encourage-ment from your ancestors.This book is the conduit, the medium, the connection, and intro-duction to your ancestors. This is a book that you can use to lookinto your great-great-great-great grandmother or grandfather'seyes and have a conversation with them as they guide you. It givesyou the ammunition that you were designed to walk with.

The Queen of Spades and Selected Works

Author : Alexander Pushkin
Publisher : Pushkin Press
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2012-11-27
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781908968104

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The Queen of Spades and Selected Works by Alexander Pushkin Pdf

"The Queen of Spades" is one of the most famous tales in Russian literature, and inspired the eponymous opera by Tchaikovsky; in "The Stationmaster", from The Tales of the Late Ivan Petrovich Belkin, Pushkin reworks the parable of the Prodigal Son; "Tsar Nikita and his Forty Daughters" is one of Pushkin’s bawdier early poems; and the narrative poem "The Bronze Horseman", inspired by a St Petersburg statue of Peter the Great, is one of Pushkin’s best-known and most influential works. The volume also includes a selection of Pushkin’s best lyric poetry. Contents: • Short Stories: The Queen of Spades; The Stationmaster • Drama: Extracts from Boris Godunov and Mozart and Salieri • The Bronze Horseman (narrative poem), Tsar Nikita and His Forty Daughters (folk poem) and 14 lyric poems • Novel in Verse: Extract from Yevgeny Onegin (novel in verse)

The Queen of Spades by Alexander Pushkin - Delphi Classics (Illustrated)

Author : Alexander Pushkin
Publisher : Delphi Classics
Page : 57 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2017-07-17
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781788776639

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This eBook features the unabridged text of ‘The Queen of Spades by Alexander Pushkin - Delphi Classics (Illustrated)’ from the bestselling edition of ‘The Collected Works of Alexander Pushkin’. Having established their name as the leading publisher of classic literature and art, Delphi Classics produce publications that are individually crafted with superior formatting, while introducing many rare texts for the first time in digital print. The Delphi Classics edition of Pushkin includes original annotations and illustrations relating to the life and works of the author, as well as individual tables of contents, allowing you to navigate eBooks quickly and easily. eBook features: * The complete unabridged text of ‘The Queen of Spades by Alexander Pushkin - Delphi Classics (Illustrated)’ * Beautifully illustrated with images related to Pushkin’s works * Individual contents table, allowing easy navigation around the eBook * Excellent formatting of the textPlease visit www.delphiclassics.com to learn more about our wide range of titles

Spade's Queen

Author : Loni Ree
Publisher : Independently Published
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2022-02-19
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9798419797055

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I run my own little kingdom with my three best friends-Wild Aces. One look at her and I take a blow right to the chest. I'm not even sure she's real. As my world instantly changes, everything in the room disappears except for her. Jace Spade I have one little problem-it's obvious she's too young to be in my bar. My heart doesn't care. This girl belongs to me and I'll find a way to deal with the obstacles. I'm not thinking clearly when I leave her alone in my office. Why didn't I get her name? My little spitfire disappears into the night, taking my heart with her. Dani That was close. I'm never letting my friends talk me into sneaking into bars again. Between college classes and my job at the local coffee shop, I don't have time to spend a weekend in jail. Although the hot bar-owner did make my palms sweaty and my heart race. Too bad, he was about to have me locked up. After weeks of searching, a chance meeting brings Dani back into Spade's life. This time, he won't let her slip away. He's going to fight for his girl and make her his queen. If you like over-the-top, insta-love romance with a little bit of humor, this short romance is the perfect story for you.

The Queen Of Spades

Author : Aleksandr Sergeevich Pushkin
Publisher : DigiCat
Page : 25 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2022-09-04
Category : Fiction
ISBN : EAN:8596547209270

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DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "The Queen Of Spades" by Aleksandr Sergeevich Pushkin. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.

Ambrose Bierce and the Queen of Spades

Author : Oakley M. Hall
Publisher : Penguin Mass Market
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2000-01-21
Category : Historical fiction
ISBN : 0140288600

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Ambrose Bierce and the Queen of Spades by Oakley M. Hall Pdf

A witty mystery in 1880s San Francisco featuring the anti-feminist journalist, Ambrose Bierce, as he investigates the murder of prostitutes. The tale is narrated by his young assistant, Tom Redmond. By the author of The Bad Lands.

Ace of Spades

Author : Faridah Àbíké-Íyímídé
Publisher : Feiwel & Friends
Page : 353 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2021-06-01
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 9781250800824

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Ace of Spades by Faridah Àbíké-Íyímídé Pdf

Gossip Girl meets Get Out in Ace of Spades, a YA contemporary thriller by debut author Faridah Àbíké-Íyímídé about two students, Devon & Chiamaka, and their struggles against an anonymous bully. All you need to know is . . . I’m here to divide and conquer. Like all great tyrants do. —Aces When two Niveus Private Academy students, Devon Richards and Chiamaka Adebayo, are selected to be part of the elite school’s senior class prefects, it looks like their year is off to an amazing start. After all, not only does it look great on college applications, but it officially puts each of them in the running for valedictorian, too. Shortly after the announcement is made, though, someone who goes by Aces begins using anonymous text messages to reveal secrets about the two of them that turn their lives upside down and threaten every aspect of their carefully planned futures. As Aces shows no sign of stopping, what seemed like a sick prank quickly turns into a dangerous game, with all the cards stacked against them. Can Devon and Chiamaka stop Aces before things become incredibly deadly? With heart-pounding suspense and relevant social commentary comes a high-octane thriller from debut author Faridah Àbíké-Íyímídé.

The Queen of Spades and Other Russian Stories

Author : Alexander Pushkin,Anton Pavlovich Chekhov,Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 205 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2011-01
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 0983150338

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The Queen of Spades and Other Russian Stories by Alexander Pushkin,Anton Pavlovich Chekhov,Fyodor Dostoyevsky Pdf

This Dual Language Reader uses a magnificent collection of Russia's greatest short stories, written by Anton Chekhov, Alexander Pushkin, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, and Nikolai Gogol, to engage the reader. The Russian (Cyrillic) text is on the right and the English translation on the left, so readers are able to comprehend the ideas being conveyed without turning a page.

The Queen Of Spades Club

Author : Sergius
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2019-10-08
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1786952351

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The Queen Of Spades Club by Sergius Pdf

Virginia was by no means naive. In fact, that was her first problem. As a teenager, she'd read about many facets of sex and sexuality. Now, as a wife she wanted to experience some hot sex. Her husband, Richard, was her second problem. He had no interest in sex, hot or otherwise. Then one afternoon they met James, a virile Black man on the subway, and their lives changed forever.

Queen of Spades

Author : Kristi Belcamino
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2019-05-17
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1096688174

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Queen of Spades by Kristi Belcamino Pdf

In Sicily, Eva, 17, took over her imprisoned father's role as a Mafia mob boss.People loved her because she took from the powerful and gave to the needy.Then she was betrayed and forced to flee to America to create a new life.When her past caught up to her, she lost it all.Now she will make them pay. Buy Queen of Spades today to start the thrill ride!