The Queen of Spades and Selected Works

The selected works of one of Russia's greatest writers, including The Queen of Spades, The Stationmaster and a selection of Pushkin's best poetic work.

A young man plots to unearth a secret from an elderly countess - a secret he believes will win him a fortune. The Queen of Spades is Pushkin's prose masterpiece, a gripping tale of avarice, obsession, madness and cards. The Queen of Spades This wonderful collection also includes the keenly and sympathetically observed story The Stationmaster; the narrative poem The Bronze Horseman; a selection of Pushkin's lyric poems; the ribald saga of Tsar Nikita and his Forty Daughters; and excerpts from Yevgeny Onegin and Mozart and Salieri. It serves as an ideal introduction to the incomparable Pushkin, the headspring of all Russian literature.