Tales Of Belkin

Author : Alexander Pushkin
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 229 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 1998-01-29
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780141908243

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Tales of Belkin and Other Prose Writings by Alexander Pushkin Pdf

Alexander Pushkin was Russia's first true literary genius. Best known for his poetry, he also wrote sparkling prose that revealed his national culture with elegance and understated humour. Here, his gift for portraying the Russian people is fully revealed. The Tales of Belkin, his first prose masterpiece, presents a series of interlinked stories narrated by a good-hearted Russian squire - among them 'The Shot', in which a duel is revisited after many years, and the grotesque 'The Undertaker'. Elsewhere, works such as the novel-fragment Roslavlev and the Egyptian Nights, the tale of an Italian balladeer seeking an audience in St. Petersberg, demonstrate the wide range of Pushkin's fiction. A Journey to Arzrum, the final piece in this collection, offers an autobiographical account of Pushkin's own experiences in the 1829 war between Russia and Turkey, and remains one of the greatest of all pieces of journalistic adventure writing.

Author : Alexander Pushkin
Publisher : Everyman's Library
Page : 613 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2024-03-05
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780307959645

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Novels, Tales, Journeys by Alexander Pushkin Pdf

From the award-winning translators: the complete prose narratives of the most acclaimed Russian writer of the Romantic era and one of the world's greatest storytellers. The father of Russian literature, Pushkin is beloved not only for his poetry but also for his brilliant stories, which range from dramatic tales of love, obsession, and betrayal to dark fables and sparkling comic masterpieces, from satirical epistolary tales and romantic adventures in the manner of Sir Walter Scott to imaginative historical fiction and the haunting dreamworld of "The Queen of Spades." The five short stories of The Late Tales of Ivan Petrovich Belkin are lightly humorous and yet reveal astonishing human depths, and his short novel, The Captain's Daughter, has been called the most perfect book in Russian literature.

Author : Alexander Pushkin
Publisher : Melville House
Page : 83 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2011-06-14
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781612190815

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Tales of Belkin by Alexander Pushkin Pdf

Ivan Petrovich Belkin left behind a great number of manuscripts.... Most of them, as Ivan Petrovich told me, were true stories heard from various people. First published anonymously in 1830, Alexander Pushkin’s Tales of Belkin contains his first prose works. It is comprised of an introductory note and five linked stories, ostensibly collected by the scholar Ivan Belkin. The stories center variously around military figures, the wealthy, and businessmen; this beautiful novella gives a vivid portrait of nineteenth century Russian life. It has become, as well, one of the most beloved books in Russian literary history, and symbolic of the popularity of the novella form in Russia. In fact, it has become the namesake for Russia’s most prestigious annual literary prize, the Belkin Prize, given each year to a book voted by judges to be the best novella of the year. It is presented here in a sparkling new translation by Josh Billings. Tales of Belkin also highlights the nature of our ongoing Art of the Novella Series—that is, that it specializes in important although albeit lesser-known works by major writers, often in new tranlsations. The Art of The Novella Series Too short to be a novel, too long to be a short story, the novella is generally unrecognized by academics and publishers. Nonetheless, it is a form beloved and practiced by literature's greatest writers. In the Art Of The Novella series, Melville House celebrates this renegade art form and its practitioners with titles that are, in many instances, presented in book form for the first time.

Author : Sang Hyun Kim
Publisher : University Press of America
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : STANFORD:36105131605003

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Aleksandr Pushkin's The Tales of Belkin by Sang Hyun Kim Pdf

"Sang Hyun examines Aleksander Pushkin's artistic intention in his masterpiece and most well-known prose work, The Tales of Belkin (1831). The author explores the trajectories of the puzzle Pushkin created in the Belkin cycle by identifying and elucidating autobiographical, folklorist, and thematic elements. Drawing on both formalist and structuralist approaches to a literary work, Kim's analysis demonstrates how the five tales in the Belkin cycle are interwoven structurally and thematically. Kim's interpretation should help future readers understand the enigmatic meaning of Pushkin's stories created in the Belkin cycle."--BOOK JACKET.

Author : Aleksandr Pushkin
Publisher : BoD - Books on Demand
Page : 87 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2022-12-08
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9782322461493

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The Daughter of the Commandant by Aleksandr Pushkin Pdf

Pyotr Andreyich Grinyov is the only surviving child of a retired army officer. When Pyotr turns 17, his father sends him into military service in Orenburg. En route Pyotr gets lost in a blizzard, but is rescued by a mysterious man. As a token of his gratitude, Pyotr gives the guide his hareskin jacket. Arriving in Orenburg, Pyotr reports to his commanding officer and is assigned to serve at Belogorsky fortress under captain Ivan Mironov. The fortress is nothing more than a fence around a village, and the captain's wife Vasilisa is really in charge.

Author : Jan van der Eng,A. G. F. van Holk,Jan M. Meijer
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 148 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2021-03-22
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783112414828

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The Tales of Belkin by A. S. Puškin by Jan van der Eng,A. G. F. van Holk,Jan M. Meijer Pdf

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Author : Aleksandr Sergeevich Pushkin
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0192839543

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Tales of the Late Ivan Petrovich Belkin by Aleksandr Sergeevich Pushkin Pdf

This volume contains new translations of four of Pushkin's best works of fiction. The Queen of Spades has long been acknowledged as one of the world's greatest short stories, in which Pushkin explores the nature of obsession. The Tales of Belkin are witty parodies of sentimentalism, while Peter the Great's Blackamoor is an early experiment with recreating the past. The Captain's Daughter is a novel-length masterpiece which combines historical fiction in the manner of Sir Walter Scott with the devices of the Russian fairy-tale. The Introduction provides close readings of the stories and places them in their European literary context.

Author : The New York Times
Publisher : Macmillan
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2004-04
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 0312312334

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Tales from the Times by The New York Times Pdf

The fascinating, the inspiring, the hilarious. . . Human interest tales from The New York Time

Author : Lisa Belkin
Publisher : Back Bay Books
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2015-08-18
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780316391405

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Show Me A Hero by Lisa Belkin Pdf

NOW AN HBO MINISERIES Not in my backyard -- that's the refrain commonly invoked by property owners who oppose unwanted development. Such words assume a special ferocity when the development in question is public housing. Lisa Belkin penetrates the prejudices, myths, and heated emotions stirred by the most recent trend in public housing as she re-creates a landmark case in riveting detail, showing how a proposal to build scattered-site public housing in middle-class neighborhoods nearly destroyed an entire city and forever changed the lives of many of its citizens. -- Public housing projects are being torn down throughout the United States. What will take their place? Show Me a Hero explores the answer. -- An important and compelling work of narrative nonfiction in the tradition of J. Anthony Lukas's Common Ground. -- A sweeping yet intimate group portrait that assesses the effects of public policy on individual human lives.

Author : Alexander Pushkin
Publisher : Tacet Books
Page : 163 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2019-01-10
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9788577770410

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7 Best Short Stories by Alexander Pushkin by Alexander Pushkin Pdf

Alexander Pushkin was a Russian poet and writer who is considered the father of the modern Russian novel. The so-called Golden Age of Russian Literature was inspired by the themes and aesthetics of Pushkin - we are talking about names like Ivan Turgenev, Ivan Goncharov, Leo Tolstoy, Mikhail Lermontov, Nikolai Gogol. This selection of short stories brings you the best of Pushkin selected by August Nemo: The Queen of Spades The Shot The Snowstorm The Postmaster The Coffin-maker Kirdjali Peter, The Great's Negro

Author : Aleksandr Pushkin
Publisher : Lindhardt og Ringhof
Page : 42 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2021-03-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9788726671667

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The Belkin Tales by Aleksandr Pushkin Pdf

The short story collection "The Belkin Tales" consists of five unrelated stories told by various narrators to a landowner who has recently died. Ivan Belkin, the landowner, was a strange and mysterious man, who indulged in the collection of stories. Here, Pushkin has included military figures, rich businessmen and ordinary people, who find themselves in extraordinary situations. The Belkin Prize is also the most prestigious award for short fiction in Russia. The stories included are the autobiographically-themed "The Shot", the disastrous "The Blizzard", the delusional raving in "The Undertaker", the tragic tale of "The Station Master", and the deceptive "The Squire’s Daughter". Deservedly labelled "the best Russian poet", Pushkin’s short life (1799-1837) did not prevent him from ushering Russian literature into its modern era. A master of the vernacular language and multifarious and vivid writing style, Pushkin’s oeuvre was of great influence to a whole legion of Russian writers and literary styles. Among his best-known works are the narrative poems "Ruslan and Ludmila" and "Eugene Onegin", the drama "Boris Godunov", several novels, short stories, and fairy tales.

Author : B. O. Unbegaun
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 103 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 1960
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:255081763

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Povesti Pokojnogo Ivana Petroviča Belkina Engl by B. O. Unbegaun Pdf

Author : Nikolai Vasilievich Gogol
Publisher : Library of Alexandria
Page : 249 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2020-09-28
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781465591432

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The Mantle and Other Stories by Nikolai Vasilievich Gogol Pdf

As a novel-writer and a dramatist, Gogol appears to me to deserve a minute study, and if the knowledge of Russian were more widely spread, he could not fail to obtain in Europe a reputation equal to that of the best English humorists. A delicate and close observer, quick to detect the absurd, bold in exposing, but inclined to push his fun too far, Gogol is in the first place a very lively satirist. He is merciless towards fools and rascals, but he has only one weapon at his disposalÑirony. This is a weapon which is too severe to use against the merely absurd, and on the other hand it is not sharp enough for the punishment of crime; and it is against crime that Gogol too often uses it. His comic vein is always too near the farcical, and his mirth is hardly contagious. If sometimes he makes his reader laugh, he still leaves in his mind a feeling of bitterness and indignation; his satires do not avenge society, they only make it angry. As a painter of manners, Gogol excels in familiar scenes. He is akin to Teniers and Callot. We feel as though we had seen and lived with his characters, for he shows us their eccentricities, their nervous habits, their slightest gestures. One lisps, another mispronounces his words, and a third hisses because he has lost a front tooth. Unfortunately Gogol is so absorbed in this minute study of details that he too often forgets to subordinate them to the main action of the story. To tell the truth, there is no ordered plan in his works, andÑa strange trait in an author who sets up as a realistÑhe takes no care to preserve an atmosphere of probability. His most carefully painted scenes are clumsily connectedÑthey begin and end abruptly; often the author's great carelessness in construction destroys, as though wantonly, the illusion produced by the truth of his descriptions and the naturalness of his conversations.

Author : Alexander Pushkin
Publisher : Alma Books
Page : 193 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2018-01-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780714545905

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Belkin's Stories by Alexander Pushkin Pdf

First published in 1831, Belkin's Stories was the first completed work of fiction by the founding father of Russian literature. Through a series of interlinked stories purporting to have been told by various narrators to the recently deceased country squire Ivan Belkin, Pushkin offers his own variation on themes and genres that were popular in his day and provides a vivid portrayal of the Russian people.From the story of revenge served cold in 'The Shot' to the havoc wreaked by a blizzard on the life of two young lovers, from the bittersweet tones of 'The Station Master' to the supernatural atmosphere of 'The Undertaker', this collection - presented here in a brand-new translation by Roger Clarke - sparkles with humour and is a testament to the brilliance and versatility of Pushkin's mind.Contains: 'The Shot', 'The Blizzard', 'The Undertaker', 'The Postmaster', 'Young Miss Peasant', 'A History of Goryukhino Village'.

Author : Aleksandr Sergeevic Puskin
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 169 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2022
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9791259912947

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The Queen of Spades and Other Stories by Aleksandr Sergeevic Puskin Pdf