The Queen of Spades

Alexander Pushkin's Short Story about Greed and Avarice

“Two fixed ideas can no more exist together in the moral world than two bodies can occupy one and the same place in the physical world.”

― Alexander Pushkin, The Queen of Spades The Queen of Spades by Alexander Pushkin is a Russian short story about avarice and human choice. When a prudent man named Hermann hears of a countess who possessed a secret trick for gambling at cards, he thinks he has discovered the answer to his financial problems. This Xist Classics edition has been professionally formatted for e-readers with a linked table of contents. This eBook also contains a bonus book club leadership guide and discussion questions. We hope you’ll share this book with your friends, neighbors and colleagues and can’t wait to hear what you have to say about it.

© 2015 Xist Classics (E-Book): 9781681951416

Erscheinungsdatum

E-Book: 23. Juni 2015