In the canon
The Queen Of Spades
- Form
- Form Novella
- Year
- Year 1834
- Originally in
- Originally in Russian
- Pages
- Pages 60
Three cards, played in order on three nights, will win a fortune at the faro table, and an old countess in St Petersburg is the only person alive who knows which three. Hermann, a young engineer officer so careful with money that he watches other men gamble all night without ever placing a stake, cannot stop thinking about her.
At that moment it seemed to him that the queen of spades smiled ironically and winked her eye at him.
The blurb, the gist, the why of the day and the work itself are in the app. The first button needs it on this device; the second gets it there.