| Description |
1 online resource (337 pages) |
| Contents |
Publisher's Foreword; Boris Godunov; Introduction; List of Scenes; Characters; Boris Godunov; Little Tragedies; Introduction; The Mean-Spirited Knight*; Mozart and Salieri*; The Stone Guest*; A Feast during the Plague; Notes on Boris Godunov; Notes on Little Tragedies; Extra Material on Alexander Pushkin's Boris Godunov and Little Tragedies; Alexander Pushkin's Life; Boris Godunov; Little Tragedies; Translator's Note; Select Bibliography; Appendices; Appendix 1. Boris Godunov: Historical Background; Appendix 2. Boris Godunov: The Text; Appendix 3. Boris Godunov: Architecture of the Play |
| Summary |
Set in Vienna, Flanders, Madrid and London, Pushkin's celebrated Little Tragedies - Mozart and Salieri, The Mean-Spirited Knight, The Stone Guest and A Feast during the Plague - each focus on a protagonist's driving obsession - with status, money, sex or risk-taking - and its devastating consequences |
| Notes |
Appendix 4. A Feast during the Plague: Extract from John Wilson's The City of the Plague |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Pushkin, Aleksandr Sergeevich, 1799-1837 -- Translations into English
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Clarke, Roger
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| ISBN |
0714545910 |
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9780714545912 |
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