Daisy's Pushkin Duel

Daisy's Pushkin Duel

Author: Nick Aaron

Publisher: Another Imprint Publishers

Published: 2021-11-14

Total Pages: 124

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In 1949 Daisy Hayes had a patient more or less her own age, Odile Speed, with whom she had a good rapport at once, and who told her about a strange kind of duel, interrupted for many years, from a short story by Pushkin. Then on Christmas Eve of 1952 our blind sleuth extraordinaire stumbled on the scene of a murder just being committed. She bumped into the culprit and the victim died in her arms. The police interrogated her at once. But soon it became clear that the testimony of a blind witness was bound to be worthless in a court of law, the results of the coroner’s inquest were inconclusive at best, and it seemed that the murderer, whoever he was, would get away scot-free. It was only in 1986, during a stay in Zermatt with her old friend Beatrice, that Daisy was confronted again with this ‘cold case’. She then experienced first-hand what it is like to fight your own version of a ‘Pushkin duel’ to the bitter end.


Berlin Fall

Berlin Fall

Author: Nick Aaron

Publisher: Another Imprint Publishers

Published: 2021-11-10

Total Pages: 147

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While treating a patient in the fall of 1972, Daisy managed to winkle out of him that he worked for MI6. Then she blabbed about a planned visit to East Berlin with her friend Margery, who was a chemistry researcher at King’s College. Back at the office, the man asked his spooks to do some background checks. It turned out that without even knowing it his blind physiotherapist and her chum had an indirect connection to a high-ranking communist party boss… Meanwhile, in East Berlin, clever operatives of the GDR secret services realized that Margery must know some pretty vital scientific secrets. They decided to put Hans Konradi on the case during the visit of the two Englishwomen to Ost. Young Hans was not an agent, just a charming student with fluent English who could easily be pressured into spying for his country. But Hans had an agenda of his own, and ‘Operation Berlin Fall’ did not turn out the way the spymasters on both sides of the Wall had envisioned. “Nick Aaron tries his hand at a spy mystery but the result is more like an unintended comedy with a tragic love story thrown in. Failure can be entertaining, however, and who needs another pompous spy opera?” - The Weekly Banner


The Queen of Spades and Selected Works

The Queen of Spades and Selected Works

Author: Alexander Pushkin

Publisher: Pushkin Press

Published: 2012-11-27

Total Pages: 161

ISBN-13: 1908968109

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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

Publisher: Good Press

Published: 2020-03-16

Total Pages: 24

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'The Queen of Spades' is a short story with supernatural elements by the Russian author Alexander Pushkin about human avarice. The story follows Hermann, an ethnic German, who is an officer of the engineers in the Imperial Russian Army. He constantly watches the other officers gamble, but never plays himself. One night, Tomsky tells a story about his grandmother, an elderly countess. Many years ago, in France, she lost a fortune at faro, and then won it back with the secret of the three winning cards, which she learned from the notorious Count of St. Germain. Hermann becomes obsessed with obtaining the secret.


The Queen of Spades and Other Stories (Illustrated Edition)

The Queen of Spades and Other Stories (Illustrated Edition)

Author: Alexander Pushkin

Publisher: Echo Library

Published: 2017-10-12

Total Pages: 136

ISBN-13: 9781406885996

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Pushkin (1799-1837) was a Russian poet, playwright and novelist of the Romantic era, considered to be his country's greatest poet and the founder of modern Russian literature. This English translation published in 1892 contains ten stories and also includes a biography of the author and several illlustrations.


A. S. Pushkin

A. S. Pushkin

Author: Aleksandr Pushkin

Publisher:

Published: 2016-08-04

Total Pages: 66

ISBN-13: 9781535289122

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Pushkin's story tells of the Russianized German card player, Hermann--an engineer in the army in Russia--who becomes obsessed with the secret of three consecutive winning cards after hearing a story about an old countess' winnings years prior. His obsession drives him to manipulate the countess' ward, Lizaveta Ivanovna, into letting him into their home.


Pushkin's Button

Pushkin's Button

Author: Serena Vitale

Publisher:

Published: 1999

Total Pages: 398

ISBN-13: 9781857029352

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Providing an account of the last few months of Alexandr Pushkin's life, this is also the story of the French soldier who killed him in a duel on 27th January 1837 - a man in love with the poet's beautiful wife. Vitale's archival detective work unearthed a mass of written material about this celebrated love triangle - journals, letters, scraps of gossip - that evokes the indulgent world of 1830s St Petersburg's salons and imperial balls.


The Queen of Spades and Other Stories

The Queen of Spades and Other Stories

Author: Александр Сергеевич Пушкин

Publisher: Penguin UK

Published: 1962

Total Pages: 414

ISBN-13: 0140441190

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This volume contains new translations of four of Pushkin's best works of fiction. The Queen of Spades has long been acknowledged as one of the world's greatest short stories, in which Pushkin explores the nature of obsession. The Tales of Belkin are witty parodies of sentimentalism, while Peter the Great's Blackamoor is an early experiment with recreating the past. The Captain's Daughter is a novel-length masterpiece which combines historical fiction in the manner of Sir Walter Scott with the devices of the Russian fairy-tale. The Introduction provides close readings of the stories and places them in their European literary context.