The Queen of Spades, and Other Stories
- ISBN-10
- 0486280543
- ISBN-13
- 9780486280547
- Category
- Fiction
- Pages
- 85
- Language
- English
- Published
- 1994
- Publisher
- Courier Dover Publications
- Author
- Aleksandr Sergeevich Pushkin
Description
Celebrated title story plus "The Shot," "The Snowstorm," "The Coffin-Maker," "An Amateur Peasant Girl," and "The Postmaster" -- all fascinating portraits of life in Tsarist Russia by one of that country's greatest writers.
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