Novels, Tales, Journeys: The Complete Prose of Alexander Pushkin (Vintage Classics)

Universally acknowledged as Russia’s greatest poet, Pushkin wrote with the rich, prolific creative powers of a Mozart or a Shakespeare. His prose spans a remarkable range, from satires to epistolary tales, from light comedies to romantic adventures in the manner of Sir Walter Scott, from travel narratives to historical fiction. The haunting dream world of “The Queen of Spades” draws on his own experiences with high-stakes society gambling. The five short stories of The Tales of the Late Ivan Petrovich Belkin are deceptively light as they reveal astonishing human depths, and his short novel, The Captain’s Daughter, a love story set during the Cossack rebellion against Catherine the Great, has been called the most perfect book in Russian literature.
 
By turns daringly dramatic and sparklingly comic, written in the exquisite cadences of a master, Novels, Tales, Journeys captures the essence of nineteenth-century Russia—and gives us, in one comprehensive volume, the work with which Pushkin laid the foundations of his country’s great prose tradition.

• The Collected Tales of Nikolai Gogol
• Eugene Onegin: A Novel in Verse (Oxford World's Classics)
• Dead Souls
• Stories of Anton Chekhov
• A Hero of Our Time (Penguin Classics)
• The Complete Short Novels
• Notes from a Dead House (Vintage Classics)
• Doctor Zhivago (Vintage International)
• Eugene Onegin and Other Poems (Everyman's Library Pocket Poets Series)
• The Enchanted Wanderer: And Other Stories (Vintage Classics)