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From: The Spectator
Date: 20071020
Author:Mirsky, Jonathan

THE CAPTAIN'S DAUGHTER by Alexander Pushkin, translated by Robert and Elizabeth Chandler, with a foreword by Elaine Feinstein Hesperus, £6.99, pp. 131, ISBN 9781843911548 £5.59 (plus £2.45 p&p) 0870 429 6655

First published in 1836, this novella shows Alexander Pushkin's mastery of almost any form. The following year -- after a miraculously productive short period -- he died in a duel over the alleged adultery of his wife with the adopted son of the Dutch ambassador.

Evocative, swashbuckling, romantic and sentimental, The Captain's Daughter centres on the peasant rebellion, 1773-75, ...

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