The Belkin Tales – Starter-Set

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Starter-Set for “The Belkin Tales”:
+ Ilya Frank’s Reading Method – the first short story Vystrel / The Shot
+ Readable Classics – Unabridged russian edition with improved readability, easy to read font and comfortable font size. High-quality printing and premium white paper.

With the EasyOriginal Starter-Set, you can quickly and easily immerse yourself in Alexander Pushkin’s “The Belkin Tales” in Russian. Thanks to Ilya Frank’s revolutionary reading method, the first short story becomes a pleasure, because you understand the text immediately and completely and you don’t have to use a dictionary. After reading the first story, you will find it easy to read the original text to the end of the book – and with more pleasure than ever!

“The Shot” (Выстрел) is a short story by Aleksandr Pushkin. It is the first story in Pushkin’s “The Tales of the Late Ivan Petrovich Belkin”, a cycle of five short stories.
The Shot details events at a military outpost in a Russian province, and then several years later, on a country estate. Pushkin discusses themes of honor, revenge and death, and places them within the broader context of Russian society. The Shot tells the story of a retired soldier named Silvio, who harbors a grudge for many years following an argument in which he was disrespected in front of his peers. Told from the perspective of an unnamed narrator, the story concludes with Silvio returning to seek his revenge against the man who wronged him, the Count.
Alexander Sergeyevich Pushkin was a Russian poet, playwright, and novelist of the Romantic era. He is considered by many to be the greatest Russian poet and the founder of modern Russian literature.
Unabridged original text. Bilingual book Russian-English.