Join us to discuss the prose of Russia's greatest poet. We will use Novels, Tales, Journeys: The Complete Prose of Alexander Pushkin, but any version of his stories will do. Pushkin's literary skill ranges from dramatic tales of love, obsession and betrayal (which Pushkin knew a lot about—he died young in a duel) to dark fables and sparkling comic masterpieces. His work includes satirical epistolary tales, romantic adventures in the manner of Sir Walter Scott, imaginative historical fiction and haunting dreamworlds such as "The Queen of Spades." The five short stories of The Late Tales of Ivan Petrovich Belkin are lightly humorous and yet reveal astonishing human depths. And some consider his short novel, The Captain's Daughter, the most perfect book in Russian literature. The discussion will be led by Lynn Harris.