Little Tragedies
In a major burst of creativity, Russian poet Alexander Pushkin during just three months in 1830 completed Eugene Onegin, composed more than thirty lyric poems, wrote several short stories and folk tales, and penned the four short dramas in verse t...
Eugene Onegin: A Novel In Verse
Fans of Hofstadter's Le Ton beau de Marot will be delighted to see his meticulous theories of translation put into practice in what seems destined to become the definitive English-language version of Eugene Onegin. It is sure to bring new and dese...
Boris Godunov
Boris Godunov
Captain's Daughter
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 ...
Pushkin: Little Tragedies
Pushkin: Little Tragedies
Bronze Horseman
Bronze Horseman
Novels, Tales, Journeys
The archetypal Romantic, killed in a duel in 1837 at the age of 37, Alexander Pushkin was effectively the founder of modern Russian literature. Though famous as a poet, he was equally at home in prose, and this volume includes all his short fictio...
Boris Godunov and Little Tragedies
Boris Godunov and Little Tragedies
Lyrics: Volume 3 (1824–29)
Lyrics: Volume 3 (1824–29)
Lyrics: Volume 4 (1829–37)
Lyrics: Volume 4 (1829–37)
Belkin's Stories and A History of Goryukhino Village
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.
Pushkin's Letters
It is universally acknowledged among Russians that Pushkin is as much their finest letter writer as he is their greatest and most beloved poet. The letters provide the best source of direct information about Pushkin as a man, as a littérateur and as a central figure in the Russian society of his day. They are included here substantially in their entirety – not only his letters in Russian, but also those in French, which constitute about a quarter of his whole epistolary. Brilliantly translated by Professor J. Thomas Shaw and equipped with extensive notes and an introduction covering every aspect of the letters – personal, literary and social – as well as a detailed index, this monumental volume can be used as a kind of encyclopedia of Alexander Pushkin and his time.