An officer who never gambles hears of an old countess who knows three winning cards, and destroys himself finding out. With it are the other tales - the stationmaster's daughter, the shot, the blizzard. Pushkin wrote prose the way nobody in Russia had before, plain and fast, and every writer after him started here.

The Queen of Spades, and Other Stories : The Snowstorm, The Undertaker, Peter the Great's Negro
Skriven av Alexander Pushkin










