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Author : Kathleen McGurl
Publisher : HarperCollins UK
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2019-08-07
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780008243906
‘Absolutely broke my heart... I didn’t emerge for breath until I’d tearfully finished the last page. Wonderful.’ Being Anne, 5 stars
Author : Edward Marston
Publisher : Allison & Busby
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2012-04-23
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780749011871
1857. Joel Heygate is the popular stationmaster at Exeter St David's railway station. So when the charred remains of a body are discovered in the embers of the town's annual Bonfire Night celebration, everyone is horrified to discover that they belong to Mr Heygate. Inspector Robert Colbeck and his assistant Victor Leeming are dispatched to Exeter with all due haste, and quickly unearth a number of suspects. But as Colbeck closes in on the killer, he finds himself in mortal danger. Can justice prevail, or will his beloved Madeleine be robbed of a husband on the very eve of their marriage?
Author : Gale, Cengage Learning
Publisher : Gale, Cengage Learning
Page : 27 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2024-06-07
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781410359209
A Study Guide for Alexander Pushkin's "The Stationmaster," excerpted from Gale's acclaimed Short Stories for Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical context; suggestions for further reading; and much more. For any literature project, trust Short Stories for Students for all of your research needs.
Author : Aleksandr Pushkin
Publisher : Lindhardt og Ringhof
Page : 19 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2021-02-26
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9788726671254
What seems to be quite an ordinary short story of a seduction and abduction of a young girl, "The Stationmaster" proves to be one of Pushkin’s best tales. At first sight an innocent kiss, the parting gift of Dunia to the traveler sends the mundane world of the stationmaster Samson Vyrin into complete disorder. Pushkin’s narrative style and knowledge of the human soul paint a picture of emotional waterfalls and whirlpools that threaten to engulf the characters. A story about how people cope with loss and helplessness. Deservedly labelled "the best Russian poet", Pushkin’s (1799-1837) short life 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 : Gary Rosenshield
Publisher : University of Wisconsin Pres
Page : 331 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2013-07-08
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780299293536
In this book, the author engages with the critical histories of two literary titans, illuminating how Dostoevsky reacted to, challenged, adapted, and ultimately transformed the work of his predecessor Pushkin. Focusing primarily on Dostoevsky's works through 1866 - including Poor Folk, The Double, Mr. Prokharchin, The Gambler, and Crime and Punishment - the author observes that the younger writer's way to literary greatness was not around Pushkin, but through him.
Author : Maggie Craig
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 435 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Domestic fiction
ISBN : 0747263914
Living away from the poverty that surrounds her in the stationmaster's cottage at Partick, Carrie Burgess leads a charmed life. Her only real problem is her mother, who thinks her daughter could do better than Ewen Livingstone, the railway labourer Carrie's grown close to; Matt Campbell, a clerk, seems a much better prospect. When Carrie's father dies suddenly, the women are forced to move out of their cottage, and money is tight. Carrie ignores her true feelings and, turning down Ewen, she marries Matt. But his devoted front conceals a man of violence. When the Second World War starts, everything changes, but Carrie remains sure of one thing: that her heart will always belong to Ewen...
Author : KATHLEEN. MCGURL
Publisher : HQ Digital
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2019-11-28
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0008331111
Author : Alexander Pushkin
Publisher : Pushkin Collection
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2021-06-15
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781782276395
A dazzling new collection of Pushkin's fiction, in definitive translations by the acclaimed Anthony Briggs As complex as they are gripping, Pushkin's stories are some of the greatest and most influential ever written. Foundational to the development of Russian prose, they retain stunning freshness and clarity, more than ever in Anthony Briggs's finely nuanced translations. These are stories that upend expectations at every turn: in 'The Captain's Daughter', Pushkin's masterful novella of love and rebellion set during the reign of Catherine the Great, a mysterious encounter proves fatally significant during a brutal uprising, while in 'The Queen of Spades' a man obsessively pursues an elderly woman's secret for success at cards, with bizarre results.
Author : Maggie Craig
Publisher : Ulverscroft
Page : 496 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0708944426
Carrie Burgess has led a charmed life. Her father is the stationmaster at Partick, a job with a house and garden attached. Carrie's only problem is her mother's determination to come between her and Ewen Livingstone - she thinks Carrie could do better than a railway laborer - Matt Campbell, a clerk, is a much more attractive prospect. But when her father dies suddenly, the women are forced to move and money is tight. Worried about her mother's health, Carrie lets her head rule her heart and she marries Matt. It's the worst mistake of her life...
Author : Alexander Pushkin
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2009-01-29
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780192643513
The Queen of Spades has long been acknowledged as one of the world's greatest short stories. In this classic literary representation of gambling, Alexander Pushkin explores the nature of obsession. Hints of the occult and gothic alternate with scenes of St Petersburg high-society in the story of the passionate Hermann's quest to master chance and make his fortune at the card-table. Underlying the taut plot is an ironical treatment of the romantic dreamer and social outcast. This volume contains three other major works of Pushkin's fiction, moving from the witty parodies of sentimentalism and high melodrama in The Tales of Belkin to an early experiment with recreating the past in Peter the Great's Blackamoor. It concludes with the novel-length masterpiece The Captain's Daughter, which combines historical fiction in the manner of Sir Walter Scott with the colour and devices of the Russian fairy-tale in a narrative of rebellion and romance. These new translations, as well as being meticulously faithful to the original, do full justice to the elegance and fluency of Pushkin's prose. The Introduction provides insightful readings of the stories and places them in their European literary context. A chronology of the Pugachov Uprising illuminates the events in The Captain's Daughter. ABOUT THE SERIES: For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has made available the widest range of literature from around the globe. Each affordable volume reflects Oxford's commitment to scholarship, providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable features, including expert introductions by leading authorities, helpful notes to clarify the text, up-to-date bibliographies for further study, and much more.
Author : Sara Gallardo
Publisher : Pushkin Press Classics
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2018-07-10
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781782274049
Dazzling, hallucinatory stories by Sara Gallardo, a rediscovered Argentinian contemporary of García Márquez never before published in English These stunning stories by Sara Gallardo astonish, overwhelm and illuminate. Deeply real, they are also shot through with the supernatural. Every muscular, musical story reveals the way that the habits of everyday life can become unknowable and unpredictable. Recently rediscovered, Sara Gallardo is a major Latin American writer whose stories recall the masters of magical realism - but maintain a domestic, whimsical atmosphere all of their own.
Author : Alexander Pushkin
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 48 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2016-05-17
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781101974599
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 : Alexander Pushkin
Publisher : Everyman's Library
Page : 613 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2024-03-05
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780307959645
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 : Gleb Struve
Publisher : Courier Corporation
Page : 415 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2012-05-23
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 9780486120287
Twelve tales by such masters as Chekhov, Tolstoy, Dostoevsky, Pushkin, others. Excellent word-for-word English translations on facing pages, plus teaching and study aids, Russian/English vocabulary, biographical/critical introductions, more.
Author : Aleksandr Sergeevich Pushkin
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0192839543
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.