{"product_id":"tales-of-belkin-and-other-prose-writings-isbn-9780140446753","title":"Tales of Belkin and Other Prose Writings","description":"\u003cb\u003eProse writings from one of Russia's greatest poets\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThese stories are wonderful in their purity of form, humor, and understatement. This collection also contains a selection of other Pushkin writings, including the fragment \u003ci\u003eRoslavlev, Egyptian Nights\u003c\/i\u003e, and the autobiographical \u003ci\u003eJourney to Arzrum\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFor more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.Tales of Belkin and Other Prose WritingsIntroduction by John Bayley\u003cbr\u003eFurther Reading\u003cbr\u003eTranslator's Note\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe Tales of the Late Ivan Petrovich Belkin\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFrom the Editor\u003cbr\u003eThe Shot\u003cbr\u003eThe Blizzard\u003cbr\u003eThe Undertaker\u003cbr\u003eThe Postmaster\u003cbr\u003eThe Squire's Daughter\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe History of the Village of Goryukhino\u003cbr\u003eRoslavlev\u003cbr\u003eKirdzhali: A Tale\u003cbr\u003eEgyptian Nights\u003cbr\u003eA Journey to Arzrum at the Time of the 1829 Campaign\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNotes\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eAlexander Sergeyevich Pushkin\u003c\/b\u003e was born in Moscow in 1799. He was liberally educated and left school in 1817. Given a sinecure in the Foreign Office, he spent three dissipated years in St Petersburg writing light, erotic and highly polished verse. He flirted with several pre-Decembrist societies, composing the mildly revolutionary verses which led to his disgrace and exile in 1820. After traveling through the Caucasus and the Crimea, he was sent to Bessarabia, where he wrote \u003cb\u003eThe Captive of the Caucasus\u003c\/b\u003e and \u003cb\u003eThe Fountain at Bakhchisaray\u003c\/b\u003e, and began \u003cb\u003eEugene Onegin\u003c\/b\u003e. His work took an increasingly serious turn during the last year of his southern exile, in Odessa. In 1824 he was transferred to his parents’ estate at Mikhaylovskoe in north-west Russia, where he spent two solitary but fruitful years during which he wrote his historical drama \u003cb\u003eBoris Godunov\u003c\/b\u003e, continued \u003cb\u003eEugene Onegin\u003c\/b\u003e and finished \u003cb\u003eThe Gipsies\u003c\/b\u003e. After the failure of the Decembrist Revolt in 1825 and the succession of a new tsar, Pushkin was granted conditional freedom in 1826. During the next three years he wandered restlessly between St Petersburg and Moscow. He wrote an epic poem, \u003cb\u003ePoltava\u003c\/b\u003e, but little else. In 1829 he went with the Russian army to Transcaucasia, and the following year, stranded by a cholera outbreak at the small family estate of Boldino, he wrote his experimental \u003cb\u003eLittle Tragedies\u003c\/b\u003e in blank verse and \u003cb\u003eThe Tales of Belkin\u003c\/b\u003e in prose, and virtually completed \u003cb\u003eEugene Onegin\u003c\/b\u003e. In 1831 he married the beautiful Natalya Goncharova. The rest of his life was soured by debts and the malice of his enemies. Although his literary output slackened, he produced his major prose works \u003cb\u003eThe Queen of Spades\u003c\/b\u003e and \u003cb\u003eThe Captain’s Daughter\u003c\/b\u003e, his masterpiece in verse, \u003cb\u003eThe Bronze Horseman\u003c\/b\u003e, important lyrics and fairy tales, including \u003cb\u003eThe Tale of the Golden Cockerel\u003c\/b\u003e. Towards the end of 1836 anonymous letters goaded Pushkin into challenging a troublesome admirer of his wife to a duel. He was mortally wounded and died in January1837.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003eRonald Wilks\u003c\/b\u003e studied Russian language and literature at Trinity College, Cambridge, and later Russian literature at London University, where he received his Ph.D. in 1972. He has also translated ‘The Little Demon’ by Sologub and, for Penguin Classics, \u003cb\u003eMy Childhood\u003c\/b\u003e, \u003cb\u003eMy Apprenticeship \u003c\/b\u003eand \u003cb\u003eMy Universities \u003c\/b\u003eby Gorky, \u003cb\u003eThe Golovlyov Family \u003c\/b\u003eby Saltykov-Shchedrin and four volumes of stories by Chekhov: \u003cb\u003eThe Kiss and Other Stories\u003c\/b\u003e, \u003cb\u003eThe Duel and Other Stories\u003c\/b\u003e, \u003cb\u003eThe Party and Other Stories\u003c\/b\u003e and \u003cb\u003eThe Fiancée and Other Stories\u003c\/b\u003e.","brand":"Penguin Classics","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46304555499749,"sku":"NP9780140446753","price":16.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780140446753.jpg?v=1767737751","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/es\/products\/tales-of-belkin-and-other-prose-writings-isbn-9780140446753","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}