A drama of ambition, murder, remorse and retribution, Boris Godunov charts the decline of a Russian statesman, whose dynastic aims were foiled by a guilty past and an audacious upstart. Based on history and inspired by Shakespeare, Alexander Pushkin's daring masterwork is presented here in its rarely published uncensored version of 1825.
Set in Vienna, Flanders, Madrid and London, Pushkin's celebrated Little Tragedies - Mozart and Salieri, The Mean-Spirited Knight, The Stone Guest and A Feast during the Plague - each focus on a protagonist's driving obsession - with status, money, sex or risk-taking - and its devastating consequences.
- ISBN10 1847491472
- ISBN13 9781847491473
- Publish Date 1 May 2010
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 21 December 2016
- Publish Country GB
- Publisher Alma Books Ltd
- Imprint Oneworld Classics Ltd
- Format Paperback
- Pages 288
- Language English