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Dai giorni della sua breve vita fino ad oggi i versi di Puskin non hanno mai abbandonato la memoria della Russia. Tradurre Puskin e stato sempre considerato una prova durissima e della piu alta importanza, come se dalla conoscenza di questo poeta dipendesse la conoscenza di tutta una civilta letteraria. I poemi e le liriche raccolti in questo volume delineano un panorama di tutta la sua produzione poetica dal 1815 al 1837.

In the 1820s, Eugene Onegin is a bored St. Petersburg dandy, whose life consists of balls, concerts, parties, and nothing more. Upon the death of a wealthy uncle, he inherits a substantial fortune and a landed estate. When he moves to the country, he strikes up a friendship with his neighbor, a starry-eyed young poet named Vladimir Lensky. Lensky takes Onegin to dine with the family of his fiancee, the sociable but rather thoughtless Olga Larina. At this meeting, he also catches a glimpse of Olgas sister Tatyana. A quiet, precocious romantic, Tatyana becomes intensely drawn to Onegin, but he doesnt respond. Lensky mischievously invites Onegin to Tatyanas name day celebration, and upon arrival, Onegin is irritated with the guests who gossip about him and Tatyana. He decides to avenge himself by dancing and flirting with Olga. Earnest and inexperienced, Lensky is wounded to the core and challenges Onegin to fight a duel, and Onegin reluctantly accepts. During the duel, Onegin unwillingly kills Lensky. Afterwards, he quits his country estate, traveling abroad to deaden his feelings of remorse. Eugene Onegin is considered a classic of Russian literature, and its eponymous protagonist has served as the model for a number of Russian literary heroes

First published in 1877, "Marie, A Story of Russian Love" is a very straightforward and elegant love story by Russias Father of Literature, Alexander Pushkin. The novel provides insight into Russian history of the eighteenth century during the reign of Catherine the Great.Set on the Russian plains, young Peter Grineff leaves the comfort of his home to face blizzards, hardship, the barbarous Kalmouk, and the Corporal of the Cossacks. During a snowstorm, a mysterious figure appears, to whom Peter gives his warm coat. This encounter is to prove crucial to Peters future. Against a gelid backdrop, love blossoms for Peter and Marie, Captain Mironoffs daughter. However, Peters love, as pure as the untrodden snow on the steppes, is threatened by a rival for Maries affection, as well as having to unravel entangled conflicts and fend off the hatred around him.

Este ebook presenta "La tempestad de nieve", con un sumario dinámico y detallado. La tempestad de nieve es una novela de Alexander Pushkin y cuenta la historia de dos grandes amores, de cómo la diferencia de clases los separa, asi como la falta de apoyo de los padres hacia los hijos, la falta de comunicacion. Maria Gavrilovna es una joven rusa que se enamora de Vladimir, un alferez del ejercito. Debido a la humilde condicion del muchacho, los padres de Maria no aprueban la relacion. Los amantes deciden que la unica solucion a sus penas amorosas es fugarse y casarse en secreto. Para llevar a cabo la boda clandestina, planean encontrarse en la aldea de Zhadrino. La noche señalada, se levanta una fuerte tormenta de nieve que impide a Vladimir llegar a tiempo. Los novios no se encuentran y, poco tiempo despues, el muere en el frente. Durante muchos meses Maria rechaza a todos sus pretendientes, fiel al recuerdo de su amado. Hasta que un dia llega a la aldea Burmin, un coronel discreto e inteligente que despertara de nuevo el interes en Maria... Aleksandr Sergueyevich Pushkin (1799 1837) fue un poeta, dramaturgo y novelista ruso, fundador de la literatura rusa moderna. Fue pionero en el uso de la lengua vernacula en sus obras, creando un estilo narrativo mezcla de drama, romance y satira que fue desde entonces asociado a la literatura rusa e influyo notablemente en posteriores figuras literarias como Gogol, Dostoyevski, Tolstoi y Tiutchev, asi como en los compositores rusos Chaikovski y Musorgski.

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The Queen of Spades has long been acknowledged as one of the worlds 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 Hermanns 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.

Pushkin's masterpieces in prose, in sparkling new translations by the award-winning Pevear and Volokhonsky. The father of Russian literature, Pushkin is beloved not only for his poetry but also for his brilliant stories, which range from dramatic narratives of love, obsession and betrayal to lively comic tales, and from satirical epistolary tales to imaginative historical fiction. This volume includes all Pushkin's prose in brilliant new translations, including his masterpieces 'The Queen of Spades', 'The Tales of the Late Ivan Petrovich Belkin' and the short novel 'The Captain's Daughter', which has been called the most perfect book in Russian literature.

Alexander Pushkin, Russia's greatest poet, was fascinated by Russia's folk history, adapting its fairy tales into captivating poetic versions. In the early twentieth century, the book illustrator Ivan Bilibin likewise fell under the spell of Old Russia, drawing on both folk motifs and art nouveau to produce beautiful illustrations to accompany Pushkin's poems. This irresistible new edition presents three of Pushkin's fairy tales - 'Tsar Saltan', 'A Fisherman and a Little Fish' and 'The Golden Cockerel' - in versions by the acclaimed translator Antony Wood, alongside Bilibin's sumptuous original illustrations. The result is an enchanting window into Russian poetry, fairy tales and magic.

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.

Eugene Onegin is the master work of the poet whom Russians regard as the fountainhead of their literature. Set in 1820s Russia, Pushkin's verse novel follows the fates of three men and three women. Engaging, full of suspense, and varied in tone, it contains a large cast of characters and offers the reader many literary, philosophical, and autobiographical digressions, often in a highly satirical vein. Eugene Onegin was Pushkin's own favourite work, and this new translation by Stanley Mitchell conveys the literal sense and the poetic music of the original.