The Collected Stories (Everyman's Library)
“Pushkin is not only Russia’s primary and archetypal author but her most astonishingly versatile one . . . There is something Mozartian about his genius, which is replete in the same manner with variety, gaiety, and depth . . . [His prose stories] are not only as much masterpieces as his tales in verse, but carry the sameunmistakable and original stamp of his style and personality.”—from the Introduction by John Bayley