The Captain's Daughter and Other Stories by Alexander Pushkin, translated from the Russian by Natalie Duddington, is an engaging novella situated in eighteenth century Russia. The first-person narrator, Pyotr Andreyich Grinev finds himself embroiled in the historical rebellion of peasants and Cossacks against the government of Catherine II/5. Pushkin is the Godfather of Russian literature. _The Captain's Daughter and other Other Stories_ is a decent representation of his writing style, but I found the stories much less interesting than his poetry. With that said, the title piece is by far the strongest of the collection. Free download or read online The Captains Daughter pdf (ePUB) book. The first edition of the novel was published in , and was written by Alexander Pushkin. The book was published in multiple languages including English, consists of pages and is available in Paperback format. The main characters of this classics, cultural story are Petr Andreevic Grinev, Mar'ja Ivanovna Mironova.
Alexander Pushkin was born in He published his first poem when he was fifteen, and in his first long poem-Ruslan and Lyudmila-made him famous. His work, including the novel-in-verse Yevgeny Onegin, the poem The Bronze Horseman, the play Boris Godunov and the short story 'The Queen of Spades', has secured his place as one of the. Read "The Queen of Spades, The Captain's Daughter and Other Stories" by Alexander Pushkin available from Rakuten Kobo. By the time Alexander Pushkin () was twenty years old, he was already being recognized in the Russian literary. Review. The Captain's Daughter - This is the longest story, a novella in length. A young man is sent off to the Army by his retired military father. Instead of being posted to the court in St. Petersburg, he ends up in south Russia at a small "back of beyond" fort. Along the way there, he has two fortuitous meetings before arriving.
As in _The Captain’s Daughter_, Pushkin presents himself as the editor of someone else’s work, much like Cervantes did in _Don Quixote_. Dead at the time of the publication of the stories, Belkin is described as the son of nobleman who inherited an estate that, through his lack of experience, he let fall into disrepair. These are stories that upend expectations at every turn: in ‘The Captain’s Daughter’, Pushkin’s masterful novella of love and rebellion set during the reign of Catherine the Great, a mysterious encounter proves fatally significant during a brutal uprising, while in ‘The Queen of Spades’ a man obsessively pursues an elderly woman’s secret for success at cards, with bizarre results. "The Captain's Daughter was the only work of Pushkin's that had a powerful influence on the next age -- it contains all the essence of what Russian realism was to become -- though it is still a story told in the orthodox manner, as a story should be.
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