Tales of Belkin and Other Prose Writings

Prose writings from one of Russia's greatest poets

These stories are wonderful in their purity of form, humor, and understatement. This collection also contains a selection of other Pushkin writings, including the fragment Roslavlev, Egyptian Nights, and the autobiographical Journey to Arzrum.

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