Alexander Pushkin: Complete Prose Fiction / Edition 1

This is a new translation of all his prose fiction, from his famous story "The Queen of Spades" down to unfinished stories and fragments that appear in English for the first time. Pushkin's non-fictional , also translated into English for the first time, is included because it furnished the historical background of his novel . The translator has taken care to achieve a balance between faithfulness to the original and readability in English, and several Russian editions have been collated to establish an accurate text. The translations are annotated to place each work in its historical context, and to eluvidate passages not easily understandable to today's reader. Appendixes present a chapter that Pushkin deleted from ; fictional fragments; Pushkin's outlines of projected works; and the apocryphal novella