{"product_id":"alexander-pushkin-paul-debreczeny-9780804718004","title":"Alexander Pushkin: Complete Prose Fiction","description":"\u003cp\u003eAlexander Pushkin (1799-1837) is best known for his great achievments in poetry, but the fixtion he wrote in the last decade of his life was to have a tremendous impact on the subsequent development of Russian prose, influencing such later writers as Gogol, Dostoevsky, and Tolstoy.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThis 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 \u003ci\u003eA History of Pugachev\u003c\/i\u003e, also translated into English for the first time, is included because it furnished the historical background of his novel \u003ci\u003eThe Captain's Daughter\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe 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 \u003ci\u003eThe Captain's Daughter\u003c\/i\u003e; fictional fragments; Pushkin's outlines of projected works; and the apocryphal novella \u003ci\u003eThe Lonely Cottage on Vasilev Island\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Paul Debreczeny\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0804718008\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780804718004\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Stanford University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 04\/01\/1990\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 560\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.70lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 1.40d","brand":"Paul Debreczeny","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44120253530367,"sku":"9780804718004","price":38.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_f439451c-aee6-4e76-a617-08ded7d8b638.jpg?v=1687413316","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/alexander-pushkin-paul-debreczeny-9780804718004","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}