The Queen of Spades and Other Stories (Penguin Classics)
Contributors: Rosemary Edmonds (Introduction, Translator)
Publisher: Penguin Classics
Published: July 27, 1978
Number of pages: 320
ISBN-13: 9780140441192
First sentence: ONE of the young men sent abroad by Peter the Great to acquire the learning needed by a country in the course of reorganization was his godson, the negro Ibrahim.