The queen of spades
(2015)
Nonfiction
eBook
Details
PUBLISHED
[United States] : Xist Publishing : Made available through hoopla, 2015
DESCRIPTION
1 online resource
ISBN/ISSN
9781681951416 (electronic bk.) MWT11504135, 168195141X (electronic bk.) 11504135
LANGUAGE
English
NOTES
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.' 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
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