Tales Of Belkin And Other Prose Writings

Author : Alexander Pushkin
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 229 pages
File Size : 51,6 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 : Melville House
Page : 83 pages
File Size : 42,8 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 : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:926487106

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The Tales of the Late Ivan Petrovich Belkin [in, Tales of Belkin and Other Prose Writings: Translated by Ronald Wilks with an Introduction by John Bayley] (Penguin Classics). by Anonim Pdf

Author : Alexander Pushkin
Publisher : Everyman's Library
Page : 613 pages
File Size : 46,9 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 : Vintage
Page : 48 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2016-05-17
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781101974599

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The Tales of the Late Ivan Petrovich Belkin by Alexander Pushkin Pdf

A Vintage Shorts “Short Story Month” Selection A young noblewoman elopes with the wrong man in a blizzard. An army officer waits years to exact revenge on a count for a dormitory insult. Following a disparaging toast, an undertaker vows to invite only his deceased customers to a party. A poor station-master’s daughter is swept away by a handsome captain to Saint Petersburg. And, a landowner’s daughter pretends to be a peasant to win the affection of handsome Alexei. From the award-winning translators Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky, a dazzling new translation of Alexander Pushkin’s first prose works. These five short masterpieces from the Romantic era have been beloved for their light humor, biting cultural satire, and profound depth in Russia and abroad for almost two centuries. Soon to be collected in the forthcoming, Novels, Tales, Journeys, “The Tales of the Late Ivan Petrovich Belkin” by the father of Russian literature, evoke the extraordinary register of life in nineteenth century Russia. An ebook short.

Author : Aleksandr Sergeevich Pushkin
Publisher : Hesperus Press
Page : 124 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Fiction
ISBN : IND:30000126989775

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The Tales of Belkin by Aleksandr Sergeevich Pushkin Pdf

"The Tales of Belkin is the first work of prose fiction to be completed by Russia's greatest poet, Alexander Pushkin." "Pushkin's artfully conceived narrator, the inexperienced and soft-hearted Ivan Petrovich Belkin, draws on the time-honoured themes of marriage, honour and betrayal. Truly a man of his time, Belkin relates stories of Byronic heroes, lovelorn heroines and supernatural events played out against Gothic backdrops. Pushkin's genius is to breathe new life into each genre, producing sparkling vignettes as surprising as they are charming. These tales have suggested fruitful new avenues of exploration to generations of Russian authors." "The volume is completed by Pushkin's other prose work of the same time, 'The History of the Village of Goryukhino', a wry parody of a contemporary history of Russia." --Book Jacket.

Author : Anton Chekhov
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2002-08-29
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780141906850

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The Lady with the Little Dog and Other Stories, 1896-1904 by Anton Chekhov Pdf

In the final years of his life, Chekhov had reached the height of his powers as a dramatist, and also produced some of the stories that rank among his masterpieces. The poignant 'The Lady with the Little Dog' and 'About Love' examine the nature of love outside of marriage - its romantic idealism and the fear of disillusionment. And in stories such as 'Peasants', 'The House with the Mezzanine' and 'My Life' Chekhov paints a vivid picture of the conditions of the poor and of their powerlessness in the face of exploitation and hardship. With the works collected here, Chekhov moved away from the realism of his earlier tales - developing a broader range of characters and subject matter, while forging the spare minimalist style that would inspire such modern short-story writers as Hemingway and Faulkner.

Author : Leo Tolstoy
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 339 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2005-06-30
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780141913667

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Master and Man and Other Stories by Leo Tolstoy Pdf

The ten stories collected in this volume demonstrate Tolstoy's artistic prowess displayed over five decades - experimenting with prose styles and drawing on his own experiences with humour, realism and compassion. Inspired by his experiences in the army, 'The Two Hussars' contrasts a dashing father and his mean-spirited son. Illustrating Tolstoy's belief that art must serve a moral purpose, 'What Men Live By' portrays an angel sent to earth to learn three existential rules of life, and 'Two Old Men' shows a peasant abandoning his pilgrimage to the Holy Land in order to help his neighbours. And in the highly moving 'Master and Man', Tolstoy depicts a mercenary merchant travelling with his unprotesting servant through a blizzard to close a business deal - little realizing he may soon have to settle accounts with his maker.

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 : 44,6 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 : Tom Pow
Publisher : Birlinn
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2012-05-21
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780857901989

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In Another World by Tom Pow Pdf

In one of the great defining moments in human history, more people now live in cities than in rural areas, and the effects of this depopulation and the plummeting birthrate are being felt keenly throughout Europe, which has the fastest-declining population in the world. Tom Pow sets out to explore what this means in some of the most rapidly vanishing areas of Europe. From Spain to Russia, he uses the tools of his trade - travelogue, essay, story and poem - to make connections, not only with what he encounters in numerous dying villages, but to reflect on his own experiences of memory, identity and loss. In Another World is an open book: not an argument, but an invitation to remember, to reflect and to engage with one of the most significant social issues affecting Europe today.

Author : Henry Eliot
Publisher : Random House
Page : 1904 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2019-02-21
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780141990934

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The Penguin Classics Book by Henry Eliot Pdf

**Shortlisted for Waterstones Book of the Year** The Penguin Classics Book is a reader's companion to the largest library of classic literature in the world. Spanning 4,000 years from the legends of Ancient Mesopotamia to the poetry of the First World War, with Greek tragedies, Icelandic sagas, Japanese epics and much more in between, it encompasses 500 authors and 1,200 books, bringing these to life with lively descriptions, literary connections and beautiful cover designs.

Author : Anton Chekhov
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2004-06-24
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780141906812

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The Shooting Party by Anton Chekhov Pdf

When a young woman dies during a shooting party at the country estate of a dissolute count, a magistrate is called upon to investigate. The mystery deepens and suspicion falls more widely as it emerges that the dead woman was at the centre of a tangled web of relationships: with her elderly husband, with the lecherous count, and with the magistrate himself...

Author : Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2009-01-29
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780141904092

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Notes from Underground and the Double by Fyodor Dostoyevsky Pdf

'That sense of the meaninglessness of existence that runs through much of twentieth-century writing - from Conrad and Kafka, to Beckett and beyond - starts in Dostoyevsky's work' Malcolm Bradbury Alienated from society and paralysed by a sense of his own insignificance, the anonymous narrator of Dostoyevsky's Notes from Underground tells the story of his tortured life. With bitter irony, he describes his refusal to become a worker in the 'anthill' and his gradual withdrawal from society. The seemingly ordinary world of St Petersburg takes on a nightmarish quality in The Double when a government clerk encounters a man who looks exactly like him - his double perhaps, or possibly the darker side of his own personality. Like Notes from Underground, this is a masterly tragi-comic study of human consciousness. Translated by Ronald Wilks with an Introduction by Robert Louis Jackson

Author : Fyodor Sologub,Ronald Wilks
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2013-07-25
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780141392943

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The Little Demon by Fyodor Sologub,Ronald Wilks Pdf

A dark classic of Russia's silver age, this blackly funny novel recounts a schoolteacher's descent into sadism, arson and murder. Mad, lascivious, sadistic and ridiculous, the provincial schoolteacher Peredonov torments his students and has hallucinatory fantasies about acts of savagery and degradation, yet to everyone else he is an upstanding member of society. As he pursues the idea of marrying to gain promotion, he descends into paranoia, sexual perversion, arson, torture and murder. Sologub's anti-hero is one of the great comic monsters of twentieth-century fiction, subsequently lending his name to the brand of sado-masochism known as Peredonovism. The Little Demon (1907) made an immediate star of its author who, refuting suggestions that the work was autobiographical, stated 'No, my dear contemporaries ... it is about you'. This grotesque mirror of a spiritually bankrupt society is arguably the finest Russian novel to have come out of the Symbolist movement. Fyodor Sologub was born in St Petersburg in 1863. His first two novels Bad Dreams (1896) and The Little Demon (1907) were drawn from his own experiences as schoolmaster in a remote provincial town. For many years Sologub could not find a publisher for The Little Demon but when in 1907 the novel was at last published - to immediate and resounding success - he was able to leave his restricting career and devote himself to literature. In 1921 his wife committed suicide and Sologub died a few years later in 1927. Ronald Wilks studied Russian language and literature at Trinity College,Cambridge, after training as a Naval interpreter, and later Russian literature at London University. He has translated many works from Russian for Penguin Classics, including books by Gorky, Gogol, Pushkin, Tolstoy and Chekhov.

Author : Nikolay Gogol
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2005-12-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780141910024

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Diary of a Madman, The Government Inspector, & Selected Stories by Nikolay Gogol Pdf

Author, dramatist and satirist, Nikolay Gogol (1809-1852) deeply influenced later Russian literature with his powerful depictions of a society dominated by petty beaurocracy and base corruption. This volume includes both his most admired short fiction and his most famous drama. A biting and frequently hilarious political satire, The Government Inspector has been popular since its first performance and was regarded by Nabokov as the greatest Russian play every written. The stories gathered here, meanwhile, range from comic to tragic and describe the isolated lives of low-ranking clerks, lunatics and swindlers. They include Diary of a Madman, an amusing but disturbing exploration of insanity; Nevsky Prospect, a depiction of an artist besotted with a prostitute; and The Overcoat, a moving consideration of poverty that powerfully influenced Dostoevsky and later Russian literature.