Boris Godunov, Little Tragedies, and Others: The Complete Plays (Vintage Classics)


 Contents
 
 Cover
 About the Author
 Other Titles
 Title Page
 Copyright
 Contents
 Introduction
 Boris Godunov
 Glossary
 A Scene from Faust
 Little Tragedies
 
 The Miserly Knight
 Mozart and Salieri
 The Stone Guest
 A Feast in a Time of Plague
 
 
 The Water Nymph
 Angelo
 
 
 
 Landmarks
 
 Cover
 Cover
 Title Page
 Contents
 Start
 Copyright
 
 
 
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 Also Translated by Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky
 Mikhail Bulgakov
 The Master and Margarita
 Anton Chekhov
 The Complete Short Novels
 Fifty-Two Stories
 Selected Stories
 Fyodor Dostoevsky
 The Adolescent
 The Brothers Karamazov
 Crime and Punishment
 Demons
 The Double and The Gambler
 The Eternal Husband and Other Stories
 The Idiot
 Notes from a Dead House
 Notes from Underground
 Nikolai Gogol
 The Collected Tales of Nikolai Gogol
 Dead Souls
 Nikolai Leskov
 The Enchanted Wanderer and Other Stories
 Boris Pasternak
 Doctor Zhivago
 Alexander Pushkin
 Novels, Tales, Journeys: The Complete Prose
 Leo Tolstoy
 Anna Karenina
 The Death of Ivan Ilyich and Other Stories
 War and Peace
 What Is Art?
 
 
 
 Alexander Pushkin
 Boris Godunov, Little Tragedies, and Others
 Alexander Pushkin (1799–1837) was a poet, playwright, and novelist who achieved literary fame before he was twenty. He was born into the Russian nobility, and his great-grandfather was the African-born general Abram Petrovich Gannibal. Pushkin’s radical politics brought him censorship and periods of banishment, but he eventually married a society beauty and became part of court life. Notoriously touchy about his honor, he died at age thirty-seven in a duel with his wife’s alleged lover.
 Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky have translated works by Tolstoy, Dostoevsky, Chekhov, Gogol, Bulgakov, Leskov, and Pasternak. They have been twice awarded the PEN/Book-of-the-Month Club Translation Prize (for Dostoevsky’s The Brothers Karamazov and Tolstoy’s Anna Karenina), and their translation of Dostoevsky’s Demons was one of three nominees for the same prize. They are married and live in France.
 
 
 
 
 
 ALSO TRANSLATED BY
 Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky
 
 
 
 THE ADOLESCENT
 by Fyodor Dostoevsky
 The narrator and protagonist of Dostoevsky’s novel The Adolescent (first published in English as A Raw Youth) is Arkady Dolgoruky, a naïve nineteen-year-old bursting with ambition and opinions. The illegitimate 
 
 
 Faust
 I’m bored, demon.
 Mephistopheles
 What of it, Faust?
 Such is the line that’s drawn for you,
 And nobody can step across it.
 All reasonable creatures are bored:
 Some are too lazy, some too busy;
 One has faith, another’s lost it;
 This one had no time for