Boris Godunov, Little Tragedies, and Others
The Complete Plays
$34.72
- Paperback
304 pages
- Release Date
28 February 2023
Summary
The award-winning translators bring us the complete plays of the most acclaimed Russian writer of the Romantic era.
Known as the father of Russian literature, Alexander Pushkin was celebrated for his dramas as well as his poetry and stories. His most famous play is Boris Godunov (later adapted into a popular opera by Mussorgsky), a tale of ambition and murder centered on the sixteenth-century Tsar who preceded the Romanovs. Pushkin was inspired by the example of Shakespeare t…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780593467565 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0593467566 |
| Author: | Alexander Pushkin, Larissa Volokhonsky, Richard Pevear |
| Publisher: | Random House USA Inc |
| Imprint: | Vintage Books |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 304 |
| Release Date: | 28 February 2023 |
| Weight: | 210g |
| Dimensions: | 17mm x 131mm x 202mm |
| Series: | Vintage Classics |
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Alexander Pushkin
Alexander Pushkin (1799-1837)
Alexander Pushkin was a poet, playwright, and novelist who achieved literary fame before he was twenty. Born into the Russian nobility, his great-grandfather was the African-born general Abram Petrovich Gannibal. Pushkin’s radical politics brought him censorship and periods of banishment, but he eventually married a society beauty and became part of court life. Notoriously touchy about his honor, he died at age thirty-seven in a duel with his wife’s alleged lover.
About the Translators:
Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky have translated works by Tolstoy, Dostoevsky, Chekhov, Gogol, Bulgakov, Leskov, and Pasternak. They were twice awarded the PEN/Book-of-the-Month Club Translation Prize (for Dostoevsky’s The Brothers Karamazov and Tolstoy’s Anna Karenina). They are married and live in France.
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