...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)
