Spick lady

The success of the novel "Queen of Spades" began with the first edition in 1834 in the journal "Library for Reading", he does not subside today.
Three treasured playing cards, which once brought a major winning the countess, do not leave Hermann alone. Obsessed with their unraveling, an uninvited guest is waiting for the countess to return to her at home, where the irreparable is performed.
Monochrome illustrations of Dementia Alekseevich Shmarinov create an atmosphere of mystical winter St. Petersburg, where Hermann, in the power of passions, tempts his fate.
The string of events leads to the end of the fatal for the protagonist.
A publication with lies (a ribbon-stroke), a convenient format.
For secondary school age