Poltava by Alexander Pushkin - Delphi Classics (Illustrated)

By Alexander Pushkin

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• Language: English
• Publisher: Publishdrive
• Release date: Jul 17, 2017
• ISBN: 9781788776578

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The Works of

ALEXANDER PUSHKIN

VOLUME 4 OF 24

Poltava

Parts Edition

By Delphi Classics, 2014

Version 1

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‘Poltava’

Alexander Pushkin: Parts Edition (in 24 parts)

First published in the United Kingdom in 2017 by Delphi Classics.

© Delphi Classics, 2017.

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ISBN: 978 1 78877 657 8

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Alexander Pushkin: Parts Edition

This eBook is Part 4 of the Delphi Classics edition of Alexander Pushkin in 24 Parts. It features the unabridged text of Poltava from the bestselling edition of the author’s Collected Works. 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. Our Parts Editions feature original annotations and illustrations relating to the life and works of Alexander Pushkin, as well as individual tables of contents, allowing you to navigate eBooks quickly and easily.

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ALEXANDER PUSHKIN

IN 24 VOLUMES

Parts Edition Contents

The Poetry

1, Short Poems

2, The Fountain of Bakhchisaray

3, The Gipsies

4, Poltava

5, The Bronze Horseman

6, Ruslan and Lyudmila

The Verse Novel

7, Eugene Onegin

The Short Stories and Unfinished Novels

8, Peter the Great’s Negro

9, Marie

10, The Shot

11, The Snowstorm

12, The Undertaker

13, The Postmaster

14, Mistress Into Maid

15, The Queen of Spades

16, Kirdjali

17, The Captain’s Daughter

18, Egyptian Nights

19, Dubrovsky

The Plays

20, Boris Godunov

21, The Stone Guest

22, Mozart and Salieri

The Criticism

23, The Criticism

The Biography

24, A Short Biographical Notice of Alexander Pushkin by Henry Spalding

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Poltava

A POEM IN THREE CANTOS.

Translated by Charles Edward Turner

This narrative poem was written in 1828 and concerns Ivan Mazepa’s actions in the Battle of Poltava between Sweden and Russia.  The poem intertwines a love plot between Mazepa and the beautiful Maria, with an account of Mazepa’s betrayal of Peter I and the Tsar’s ultimate victory. The poem is celebrated for its depth of characterisation and employs the use of several different genres, inspiring the composer Tchaikovsky to compose the 1884 opera Mazeppa.

Poltava opens with an epigraph from Byron’s 1819 ballad Mazeppa, which depicts the Hetman as a Romantic hero,