The Queen of Spades and Other Stories

The Queen of Spades and Other Stories
Author: Aleksandr Sergeevic Puskin
Publsiher: Unknown
Total Pages: 169
Release: 2022
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 9791259912947

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The Queen of Spades and other Stories

The Queen of Spades and other Stories
Author: Alexander Pushkin
Publsiher: Library of Alexandria
Total Pages: 317
Release: 2020-09-28
Genre: Electronic Book
ISBN: 9781465616494

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There was a card party at the rooms of Narumoff, a lieutenant in the Horse Guards. A long winter night had passed unnoticed, and it was five o'clock in the morning when supper was served. The winners sat down to table with an excellent appetite; the losers let their plates remain empty before them. Little by little, however, with the assistance of the champagne, the conversation became animated, and was shared by all. "How did you get on this evening, Surin?" said the host to one of his friends. "Oh, I lost, as usual. I really have no luck. I play mirandole. You know that I keep cool. Nothing moves me; I never change my play, and yet I always lose." "Do you mean to say that all the evening you did not once back the red? Your firmness of character surprises me." "What do you think of Hermann?" said one of the party, pointing to a young Engineer officer. "That fellow never made a bet or touched a card in his life, and yet he watches us playing until five in the morning." "It interests me," said Hermann; "but I am not disposed to risk the necessary in view of the superfluous." "Hermann is a German, and economical; that is the whole of the secret," cried Tomski. "But what is really astonishing is the Countess Anna Fedotovna!" "How so?" asked several voices. "Have you not remarked," said Tomski, "that she never plays?" "Yes," said Narumoff, "a woman of eighty, who never touches a card; that is indeed something extraordinary!" "You do not know why?" "No; is there a reason for it?" "Just listen. My grandmother, you know, some sixty years ago, went to Paris, and became the rage there. People ran after her in the streets, and called her the 'Muscovite Venus.' Richelieu made love to her, and my grandmother makes out that, by her rigorous demeanour, she almost drove him to suicide. In those days women used to play at faro. One evening at the court she lost, on parole,to the Duke of Orleans, a very considerable sum. When she got home, my grandmother removed her beauty spots, took off her hoops, and in this tragic costume went to my grandfather, told him of her misfortune, and asked him for the money she had to pay. My grandfather, now no more, was, so to say, his wife's steward. He feared her like fire; but the sum she named made him leap into the air. He flew into a rage, made a brief calculation, and proved to my grandmother that in six months she had got through half a million rubles. He told her plainly that he had no villages to sell in Paris, his domains being situated in the neighbourhood of Moscow and of Saratoff; and finally refused point blank. You may imagine the fury of my grandmother. She boxed his ears, and passed the night in another room.

Queen of Spades

Queen of Spades
Author: Michael Shou-Yung Shum
Publsiher: Forest Avenue Press
Total Pages: 233
Release: 2017-10-10
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 9781942436331

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Queen of Spades revamps the classic Pushkin fable of the same name, transplanted to a mysterious Seattle-area casino populated by a pit boss with six months to live, a dealer obsessing over the mysterious methods of an elderly customer known as the Countess, and a recovering gambler who finds herself trapped in a cultish twelve-step program. With a breathtaking climax that rivals the best Hong Kong gambling movies, Michael Shou-Yung Shum's debut novel delivers the thrilling highs and lows that come when we cede control of our futures to the roll of the dice and the turn of a card.

Pushkin and the Queen of Spades

Pushkin and the Queen of Spades
Author: Alice Randall
Publsiher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Total Pages: 296
Release: 2004
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0618562052

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"Windsor Armstrong is a polished, Harvard-educated African American professor of Russian literature. Her son, Pushkin X, is an exceedingly famous pro football player, an achievement that impresses his mother not at all. Even more distressing, however, her beloved son has just become engaged to a gorgeous white Russian emigre who also happens to be a lap dancer." "For Windsor this predicament is no laughing matter. Determined to get to the bottom of it, she embarks on a journey into her own rich past to her Motown childhood, where the Temptations danced across the stage and love came disguised as a sharply dressed gangster; to Harvard, where she endured the humiliation of being an unwed black teen mother; to St. Petersburg, where the verses of the brilliant Russian poet Alexander Pushkin, great-grandson of an African slave, moved through her head as she made love to her own white Russian. The urge to protect her son has been Windsor's only goal, but as she draws ever closer to the secret that has cast a shadow over her life, the identity of her son's father, she discovers that the half-lies she has fed her boy don't add up to the beauty of the truth."--BOOK JACKET.

Queen of Spades

Queen of Spades
Author: Queen Co. Meadows The Hoodoo Queen
Publsiher: Unknown
Total Pages: 86
Release: 2020-07-23
Genre: Electronic Book
ISBN: 9798663453790

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Queen of Spades is the medium that connects the descendants ofenslaved Africans to their traditional spirituality, their magic, andthe customs of their people.This is traditional African American conjure, best known asHoodoo, coming directly from its descendants, from a family that isknown throughout the Americas and West Indies, documentedsince we have been enslaved in the western hemisphere.This book will give the descendants of these people a look intowho we were before slavery. With recipes to reshape the presentreality, this book gives you the tools to gain clarity and the answersneeded for the darkness in your life. This book is true encourage-ment from your ancestors.This book is the conduit, the medium, the connection, and intro-duction to your ancestors. This is a book that you can use to lookinto your great-great-great-great grandmother or grandfather'seyes and have a conversation with them as they guide you. It givesyou the ammunition that you were designed to walk with.

The Queen of Spades and Selected Works

The Queen of Spades and Selected Works
Author: Alexander Pushkin
Publsiher: Pushkin Press
Total Pages: 160
Release: 2012-11-27
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 9781908968104

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"The Queen of Spades" is one of the most famous tales in Russian literature, and inspired the eponymous opera by Tchaikovsky; in "The Stationmaster", from The Tales of the Late Ivan Petrovich Belkin, Pushkin reworks the parable of the Prodigal Son; "Tsar Nikita and his Forty Daughters" is one of Pushkin’s bawdier early poems; and the narrative poem "The Bronze Horseman", inspired by a St Petersburg statue of Peter the Great, is one of Pushkin’s best-known and most influential works. The volume also includes a selection of Pushkin’s best lyric poetry. Contents: • Short Stories: The Queen of Spades; The Stationmaster • Drama: Extracts from Boris Godunov and Mozart and Salieri • The Bronze Horseman (narrative poem), Tsar Nikita and His Forty Daughters (folk poem) and 14 lyric poems • Novel in Verse: Extract from Yevgeny Onegin (novel in verse)

The Queen of Spades

The Queen of Spades
Author: Aleksandr Sergeevich Pushkin
Publsiher: Unknown
Total Pages: 318
Release: 1892
Genre: Electronic Book
ISBN: CHI:13668989

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The Queen of Spades by Alexander Pushkin Delphi Classics Illustrated

The Queen of Spades by Alexander Pushkin   Delphi Classics  Illustrated
Author: Alexander Pushkin
Publsiher: Delphi Classics
Total Pages: 57
Release: 2017-07-17
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 9781788776639

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This eBook features the unabridged text of ‘The Queen of Spades 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. eBook features: * The complete unabridged text of ‘The Queen of Spades by Alexander Pushkin - Delphi Classics (Illustrated)’ * Beautifully illustrated with images related to Pushkin’s works * Individual contents table, allowing easy navigation around the eBook * Excellent formatting of the textPlease visit www.delphiclassics.com to learn more about our wide range of titles