Pushkin's The Queen of Spades (Critical Studies in Russian Literature) (Critical Studies in Russian Literature)
Publisher: Duckworth Publishers
Published: December 19, 2001
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 96
ISBN-13: 9781853993428
Subjects: Literary studies: 19th century; Works by individual poets: 19th century; Russian & Former Soviet Union; Literature - Classics / Criticism; Literary Criticism; Russian; Literature & Fiction / Literary Criticism; Literary Criticism & Collections / Russian & Former Soviet Union; Pikovaia dama; Pushkin, Aleksandr Sergeevich
First sentence: The Queen of Spades has been called many things, from an 'anecdote' (by Belinsky: see below) to an extremely compressed novel (A.V. Chicherin; see Debreczeny, 1983:232).