Peasants and Other Stories
Peasants and Other Stories

Author: Anton Chekhov

Publisher: New York Review of Books

Published: 1999-09-30

Total Pages: 500

ISBN-13: 9780940322141

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The ever maturing art and ever more ambitious imaginative reach of Anton Chekhov, one of the world's greatest masters of the short story, led him in his last years to an increasingly profound exploration of the troubled depths of Russian society and life. This powerful and revealing selection from Chekhov's final works, made by the legendary American critic Edmund Wilson, offers stories of novelistic richness and complexity, published in the only formatp edition to present them in chronological order. Table of Contents A Woman's Kingdom Three Years The Murder My Life Peasants The New Villa In the Ravine The Bishop Betrothed

Fifty-two Stories, 1883-1898
Fifty-two Stories, 1883-1898

Author: Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

Publisher: Knopf

Published: 2020

Total Pages: 529

ISBN-13: 0525520813

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From the celebrated, award-winning translators of Anna Karenina and War and Peace a lavish, masterfully rendered volume of stories by one of the most influential short fiction writers of all time. Chekhov's genius left an indelible impact on every literary form in which he wrote, but none more so than short fiction. Now, renowned translators and longtime house authors Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky give us their peerless renderings of fifty-two Chekhov stories--a full deck These stories, which span the full arc of his career, reveal the extraordinary variety and unexpectedness of his work, from the farcically comic to the darkly complex, showing that there is no one type of "Chekhov story." They are populated by a remarkable range of characters who come from all parts of Russia, all walks of life, and who, taken together, have democratized the short story. Included here are a number of never-before-translated stories, including "Reading" and "An Educated Blockhead." Here is a collection that promises profound delight.

The Complete Short Novels
The Complete Short Novels

Author: Anton Chekhov

Publisher: Vintage

Published: 2007-12-18

Total Pages: 578

ISBN-13: 030742829X

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(Book Jacket Status: Jacketed) Aanton 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.

Anton Chekhov's Short Stories
Anton Chekhov's Short Stories

Author: Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

Publisher: W W Norton & Company Incorporated

Published: 1979

Total Pages: 369

ISBN-13: 9780393090024

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The thirty-four stories in this volume span Chekhov s creative career."

The Steppe and the Other Stories
The Steppe and the Other Stories

Author: Anton Chekhov

Publisher: Readhowyouwant

Published: 2006-12-01

Total Pages: 492

ISBN-13: 9781425056568

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'the Steppe and other Stories'', a collection is among the first of Chekhov's works to be published in a serious literary journal. The majority of tales in this collection focus on the issues faced by privileged class. The narration shows that the author never left his roots, being the son of an unsuccessful provincial grocer greatly influenced his writings. Interesting!

Chekhov's Letters
Chekhov's Letters

Author: Carol Apollonio

Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield

Published: 2018-10-15

Total Pages: 369

ISBN-13: 1498570453

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Of the thirty volumes in the authoritative Academy edition of Chekhov's collected works, fully twelve are devoted to the writer's letters. This is the first book in English or Russian addressing this substantial—though until now neglected—epistolary corpus. The majority of the essays gathered here represent new contributions by the world's major Chekhov scholars, written especially for this volume, or classics of Russian criticism appearing in English for the first time. The introduction addresses the role of letters in Chekhov's life and characterizes the writer's key epistolary concerns. After a series of essays addressing publication history, translation, and problems of censorship, scholars analyze the letters' generic qualities that draw upon, variously, prose, poetry, and drama. Individual thematic studies focus on the letters as documents reflecting biographical, cultural, and philosophical issues. The book culminates in a collection of short, at times lyrical, essays by eminent scholars and writers addressing a particularly memorable Chekhov letter. Chekhov's Letters appeals to scholars, writers, and theater professionals, as well to a general audience.

World Classics
World Classics

Author: Perfection Lrn

Publisher: Perfection Learning

Published: 1987-09

Total Pages: 174

ISBN-13: 9780895981332

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Presents a collection of eight adapted classics including "The Voyages of Sindbad the Sailor," "Diary of a Madman," and "The Nightingale," and provides footnotes, information about the author, and facts into the author and his work.

Chekhov’s Sakhalin Journey
Chekhov’s Sakhalin Journey

Author: Jonathan Cole

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing

Published: 2023-12-14

Total Pages: 241

ISBN-13: 1350367486

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Chekhov often said that 'I am a doctor by trade and sometimes I do literary work in my free time', a surprising claim, given his status as a giant of 20th century drama. This literary-biographical study uncovers new sides to him, as both a medical professional and humanitarian, and tells the story of Chekhov's trip to Sakhalin Island in the harsh wastes of Siberia. Anton Chekhov practiced medicine for most of his life and engaged in humanitarian work which took him away from writing for months. He placed one such trip though, across the unforgiving terrain of Siberia to write about the penal island of Sakhalin, above all others. Chekhov's Sakhalin Journey, written by a neuroscientist and practicing clinician, uses this trip and Chekhov's own account of it to shed light on hitherto overlooked aspects of his life. In doing so, it shows that to understand the man we need his medicine as well as his literature, and we need to assess his life from his perspective as well as ours.