Tales of the Late Ivan Petrovich Belkin, The Queen of Spades, The Captain's Daughter, Peter the Great's Blackamoor (Oxford World's Classics)
Contributors: Andrew Kahn (Editor); Alan Myers (Translator)
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: May 15, 1997
Language: eng
Number of pages: 273
ISBN-13: 9780192832139
First sentence: In undertaking the publication of I. P. Belkin's Tales, now placed before the reader, we had hoped to include a biography of the late author, however brief, thus satisfying to some extent the legitimate curiosity of lovers of our native letters.