Aleksandr Sergeevich Pushkin: 8 books

This comprehensive eBook presents the complete works or all the significant works - the Œuvre - of this famous and brilliant writer in one ebook - easy-to-read and easy-to-navigate: • Eugene Oneguine [Onegin] • The Daughter of the Commandant • The Queen Of Spades • Boris Godunov: a drama...

A Russian author of the Romantic era who is considered by many to be the greatest Russian poetand the founder of modern Russian literature. Pushkin published his first poem at the age of fifteen, and was widely recognized by the literary establishment by the time of his graduation from the Tsarskoye...

AT the end of 1811—an epoch memorable to us—there lived on his estate Nenaradovo kind Gavril Gavrilovitch R. He was renowned in the district for his friendliness and hospitality ; neighbours came to his house at every hour of the day to have a meal and a drink, to play a game of cards for five copecks...

AT the house of Naroumov, a cavalry officer, the long winter night had been passed in gambling. At five in the morning breakfast was served to the weary players. The winners ate with relish; the losers, on the contrary, pushed back their plates and sat brooding gloomily. Under the influence of the good...

My father, Andrew Peter Grineff, having served in his youth under Count Munich, left the army in 17—, with the grade of First Major. From that time he lived on his estate in the Principality of Simbirsk, where he married Avoditia, daughter of a poor noble in the neighborhood. Of nine children, the...

Mon père, André Pétrovitch Grineff, après avoir servi dans sa jeunesse sous le comte Munich 1, avait quitté l'état militaire en 17.. avec le grade de premier major. Depuis ce temps, il avait constamment habité sa terre du gouvernement de Simbirsk, où il épousa Mlle Avdotia Ire, fille d'un pauvre...

WE were stationed in the little town of N——. The life of an officer in the army is well known. In the morning, drill and the riding school; dinner with the Colonel or at a Jewish restaurant; in the evening, punch and cards. In N—— there was not one open house, not a single marriageable girl....