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The Alexander Pushkin Collection

Karpathos publishes the greatest works of history’s greatest authors and collects them to make it easy and affordable for readers to have them all at the push of a button. All of our collections include a linked table of contents.Alexander Pushkin was a great Russian poet in the early 19th century. Pushkin also is noted for being the founder of modern Russian literature. This collection includes the following:NOVELS:Marie: A Story of Russian LoveThe Daughter of the Commandant SHORT STORIES:The Queen of SpadesThe Shot PLAYS:Boris Godunov: A Drama in Verse POETRY:Eugene OneginThe Balchesarian Fountain

File Size: 1402 KB

Print Length: 584 pages

Publisher: Karpathos Collections (June 4, 2016)

Publication Date: June 4, 2016

Language: English

ASIN: B01GLY50E4

Text-to-Speech: Enabled

X-Ray: Not Enabled

Word Wise: Enabled

Lending: Not Enabled

Enhanced Typesetting: Enabled

Best Sellers Rank: #161,161 Paid in Kindle Store (See Top 100 Paid in Kindle Store) #6 in Kindle Store > Kindle eBooks > Literature & Fiction > Poetry > Russian #19 in Books > Literature & Fiction > Poetry > Regional & Cultural > Russian #42 in Kindle Store > Kindle eBooks > Literature & Fiction > Poetry > Epic

I became interested in Pushkin's writings after learning on a recent trip to St Petersburg, Russia, about how revered he is there.This volume of 6 works seemed to be a good introduction--a couple of his famous plays, as well as some of the poetry. I have to say, it was tough going. I've read Russian writers before and enjoyed them, but I think the Kindle format got in the way, in this case (disruptive footnote placement, as well as awkward formatting.) In addition, one of the plays was repeated twice, for no apparent reason. If you're really interested in Pushkin, you might want to try a more user-friendly version.

This is probably the best Pushkin collection available on Kindle. I would have liked to give it 5 stars, but the navigation is clunky, like so many of these classic collections.

It's not a good version. It's difficult to know what you're reading, commentary or content. And it's hard to navigate around the volume. If this is your introduction to Pushkin, it'll ruin your experience.

Strangely, the "six works" in this collection is actually five, with a single story repeated twice. This is a bizarre way to package a digital volume. Surely readers of Pushkin can count to five?Beyond the cheat of claiming there are six works here, Pushkin is a great writer. He's better with his poetry than with his stories, but I did like "Marie" a great deal. (However, the paranormal Queen of Spades is a few notches below Edgar Allan Poe's standard.)Still, Pushkin is definitely worth reading and not just for classic Russian lit completists.

Each story has a little twist in it.The queen of spades was great.I did not expect sci-fi and super natural type stories in such an old book form Russia.

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