[Gutenberg 55024] • The Queen of Spades and other stories

This volume contains new translations of four of Pushkin's best works of fiction. *The Queen of Spades* has long been acknowledged as one of the world's greatest short stories, in which Pushkin explores the nature of obsession. *The Tales of Belkin* are witty parodies of sentimentalism, while *Peter the Great's Blackamoor* is an early experiment with recreating the past. *The Captain's Daughter* is a novel-length masterpiece which combines historical fiction in the manner of Sir Walter Scott with the devices of the Russian fairy-tale. The Introduction provides close readings of the stories and places them in their European literary context.