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    Short Poems by Alexander Pushkin - Delphi Classics (Illustrated)
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    This eBook features the unabridged text of ‘Short Poems by Alexander Pushkin - Delphi Classics (Illustrated)’ from the bestselling edition of ‘The Collected Works of Alexander Pushkin’.

    Having established their name as the leading publisher of classic literature and art, Delphi Classics produce publications that are individually crafted with superior formatting, while introducing many rare texts for the first time in digital print. The Delphi Classics edition of Pushkin includes original annotations and illustrations relating to the life and works of the author, as well as individual tables of contents, allowing you to navigate eBooks quickly and easily.

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    Release dateJul 17, 2017
    ISBN9781788776547
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      Short Poems by Alexander Pushkin - Delphi Classics (Illustrated) - Alexander Pushkin

      The Works of

      ALEXANDER PUSHKIN

      VOLUME 1 OF 24

      Short Poems

      Parts Edition

      By Delphi Classics, 2014

      Version 1

      COPYRIGHT

      ‘Short Poems’

      Alexander Pushkin: Parts Edition (in 24 parts)

      First published in the United Kingdom in 2017 by Delphi Classics.

      © Delphi Classics, 2017.

      All rights reserved.  No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means, without the prior permission in writing of the publisher, nor be otherwise circulated in any form other than that in which it is published.

      ISBN: 978 1 78877 654 7

      Delphi Classics

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      Delphi Publishing Ltd

      Hastings, East Sussex

      United Kingdom

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      Alexander Pushkin: Parts Edition

      This eBook is Part 1 of the Delphi Classics edition of Alexander Pushkin in 24 Parts. It features the unabridged text of Short Poems from the bestselling edition of the author’s Collected Works. Having established their name as the leading publisher of classic literature and art, Delphi Classics produce publications that are individually crafted with superior formatting, while introducing many rare texts for the first time in digital print. Our Parts Editions feature original annotations and illustrations relating to the life and works of Alexander Pushkin, as well as individual tables of contents, allowing you to navigate eBooks quickly and easily.

      Visit here to buy the entire Parts Edition of Alexander Pushkin or the Collected Works of Alexander Pushkin in a single eBook.

      Learn more about our Parts Edition, with free downloads, via this link or browse our most popular Parts here.

      ALEXANDER PUSHKIN

      IN 24 VOLUMES

      Parts Edition Contents

      The Poetry

      1, Short Poems

      2, The Fountain of Bakhchisaray

      3, The Gipsies

      4, Poltava

      5, The Bronze Horseman

      6, Ruslan and Lyudmila

      The Verse Novel

      7, Eugene Onegin

      The Short Stories and Unfinished Novels

      8, Peter the Great’s Negro

      9, Marie

      10, The Shot

      11, The Snowstorm

      12, The Undertaker

      13, The Postmaster

      14, Mistress Into Maid

      15, The Queen of Spades

      16, Kirdjali

      17, The Captain’s Daughter

      18, Egyptian Nights

      19, Dubrovsky

      The Plays

      20, Boris Godunov

      21, The Stone Guest

      22, Mozart and Salieri

      The Criticism

      23, The Criticism

      The Biography

      24, A Short Biographical Notice of Alexander Pushkin by Henry Spalding

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      Short Poems

      Translated by Charles Edward Turner, George Borrow and Ivan Panin

      Universally revered as the greatest of all the Russian poets and the founder of his country’s modern literature, Pushkin was born into the nobility in Moscow in 1799.  Although destined to have a tragically short life, Pushkin had published his first poem at the age of fifteen and he was already widely recognised as being a poetic genius at the time of his graduation from the Tsarskoye Selo Lyceum.

      For much of his literary career, Pushkin was censored under the strict surveillance of the Tsar’s political police and he was often unable to publish his works.  His political poems led to an interrogation by the Petersburg governor-general and the great poet even endured exile to his mother’s rural estate in Mikhailovskoe from 1824 to 1826.

      Pushkin is celebrated for having developed a highly nuanced level of language that went on to influence the course of Russia literature.  He is also credited for augmenting the Russian lexicon, much like how Shakespeare influenced the English language. Pushkin’s fashioning of new words, his use of rich vocabulary and his highly sensitive handling of style all laid the foundations for what we now consider to be modern Russian literature. In spite of his brief life, Pushkin bequeathed to posterity works of almost every literary genre, spanning lyric poetry, narrative poetry, unfinished novels,

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