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Tales of the Late Ivan Petrovich Belkin, The Queen of Spades, The Captain's Daughter, Peter the Great's Blackamoor (Oxford World's Classics) (1st Edition) by Alexander Sergeyevich Pushkin, Andrew Kahn (Editor), Alan Myers (Translator) Paperback, 336 Pages, Published 2009 ISBN-10: 0-19-953865-4 / 0199538654 ISBN-13: 978-0-19-953865-2 / 9780199538652 The Queen of Spades has long been acknowledged as one of the world's greatest short stories. In this classic literary representation of gambling, Alexander Pushkin explores the nature of obsession. Hints of the occult and gothic alternate with scenes of St Petersburg high-society in the story of the |