A review by jgwc54e5
The Captain's Daughter: Essential Stories by Alexander Pushkin

4.0

This collection contains the novella “The Captains Daughter” and two short stories “The Stationmaster” and “The Queen of Spades”. I very much enjoyed reading this translation, particularly the final story, a gambling story where a particular sequence of cards is said to always win. The secret held by an elderly countess becomes the obsession of Hermann and he desperately wants to find it out. An excellent read.