The complete short novels / Anton Chekhov ; translated from the Russian by Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky ; with an introduction by Richard Pevear.
Material type: TextLanguage: English Original language: Russian Series: Everyman's library ; 277Publication details: New York : Everyman's Library, 2004.Description: xli, 548 p. ; 22 cmISBN:- 1400040493 (US)
- 1857152778 (UK)
- 9781400040490 (US)
- 9781857152777 (UK)
- Short stories. English. Selections
Item type | Home library | Collection | Call number | Materials specified | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds | |
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Adult Book | Main Library | Fiction | Chekhov, Anton Pavlovich | Available | 33111005742537 |
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
Anton Chekhov, widely hailed as the supreme master of the short story, also wrote five works long enough to be called short novels-here brought together in one volume for the first time, in a masterly new translation by the award-winning translators Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky.
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. 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 spying on an important official by serving as valet to his son gradually discovers that his own terminal illness has changed his long-held priorities in startling ways. Three Years recounts a complex series of ironies in the personal life of a rich but passive Moscow merchant. In My Life , a man renounces wealth and social position for a life of manual labor.
The resulting conflict between the moral simplicity of his ideals and the complex realities of human nature culminates in a brief apocalyptic vision that is unique in Chekhov's work.
Includes bibliographical references (p. xxiv-xxv).
The steppe -- The duel -- The story of an unknown man -- Three years -- My life.