{"product_id":"novels-tales-journeys-by-alexander-pushkin-9781841594187","title":"Novels, Tales, Journeys","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFrom the award-winning translators Pevear and Volokhonsky, the complete prose of the most acclaimed writer of the Romantic era, one of the world's greatest storytellers.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe archetypal Romantic, killed in a duel in 1837 at the age of 37, Alexander Pushkin was effectively the founder of modern Russian literature. Though famous as a poet, he was equally at home in prose, and this volume includes all his short fiction, as well as unfinished sketches and fragments.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eHere, of course, are his masterpieces: \u003cem\u003eThe Queen of Spades\u003c\/em\u003e, Pushkin's ironic take on both the supernatural and the society tale; the terse, deadpan \u003cem\u003eTales of Belkin\u003c\/em\u003e, often humorous yet imbued with deep understanding of human nature; and his unsurpassable novella, \u003cem\u003eThe Captain's Daughter\u003c\/em\u003e, which, informed by his meticulous research into the Pugachev Rebellion against Catherine the Great, is a perfect combination of folk epic, historical narrative, and romance.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eOther works include the richly comic \u003cem\u003eA History of the Village of Goriukhino\u003c\/em\u003e, the imaginative historical fiction \u003cem\u003eThe Moor of Peter the Great\u003c\/em\u003e (based on the life of the author's own great-grandfather. Pushkin was particularly proud of his African ancestry), and \u003cem\u003eJourney to Arzrum\u003c\/em\u003e, the fascinating autobiographical account of his (unauthorized, and greatly displeasing to the Tsar) travels in the Caucasus at the time of the 1828-9 Russo-Turkish war.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Penguin Random House NZ","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46671137505516,"sku":"9781841594187","price":35.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/18840903482843.jpg?v=1752800096","url":"https:\/\/bookhero.live\/products\/novels-tales-journeys-by-alexander-pushkin-9781841594187","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}