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The Complete Short Novels
Anton Chekov
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Description for The Complete Short Novels
Hardcover. Translator(s): Pevear, Richard; Volokhonsky, Larissa. Num Pages: 548 pages. BIC Classification: FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 213 x 137 x 29. Weight in Grams: 638.
Chekhov, widely hailed as the supreme master of the short story, also wrote five works long enough to be called short novels. The Steppe-the most lyrical of the five-is an account of a nine-year-old boy's frightening journey by wagon train across the steppe of southern Russia to enroll in a distant school. The Duel sets two decadent figures-a fanatical rationalist and a man of literary sensibility-on a collision course that ends in a series of surprising reversals. In The Story of an Unknown Man, a political radical plans to spy on an important official by serving as valet to his ... Read more
Chekhov, widely hailed as the supreme master of the short story, also wrote five works long enough to be called short novels. The Steppe-the most lyrical of the five-is an account of a nine-year-old boy's frightening journey by wagon train across the steppe of southern Russia to enroll in a distant school. The Duel sets two decadent figures-a fanatical rationalist and a man of literary sensibility-on a collision course that ends in a series of surprising reversals. In The Story of an Unknown Man, a political radical plans to spy on an important official by serving as valet to his ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2004
Publisher
Everyman
Condition
New
Number of Pages
560
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781857152777
SKU
9781857152777
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About Anton Chekov
Anton Chekhov was the author of hundreds of short stories and several plays and is regarded by many as both the greatest Russian storyteller and the father of modern drama.
Reviews for The Complete Short Novels
Praise for previous translations by Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky: The reinventors of the classic Russian novel for our times. -PEN/BoMC Translation Prize Citation Their translations have become the standard English-language texts. -Newsday The Brothers Karamazov: One finally gets the musical whole of Dostoevksy's original. ... Read more