The Queen of Spades and Other Stories

This collection gathers Pushkin's shorter prose of the 1830s around the title novella of Hermann and the countess's card secret. Typical companion pieces include the Tales of Belkin - a shot postponed for years, a snowstorm that misdirects a wedding, a stationmaster and his daughter, an undertaker among his dead, a lady who plays the peasant - and sometimes related stories of duels, imposture, and provincial love. Settings are Petersburg, country estates, and the post road. The pieces are independent. The book is an anthology of Pushkin's fiction, not a single novel and not a volume of his verse.

Bound in red cloth, cover blocked with a black and grey design by Anna & Elena Balbusso.