Fifty-two stories (1883-1898)

Chekhov, Anton Pavlovich, 1860-1904, author.

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"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 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...

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Chekhov, Anton Pavlovich, 1860-1904 Translations into English

Short stories, Russian

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ISBN:

9780525520818

Edition:

First edition

Description:

xii, 508 pages ; 24 cm

Notes:

"A Borzoi Book"--Title page verso
Translated from the Russian

Contents:

Joy
Fat and skinny
At the post office
Reading
The cook gets married
In a foreign land
Coporal Whompov
Grief
The exclamation point
An educated blockhead
A slip-up
Anguish
A commotion
The witch
A little joke
Agafya
Spring
A nightmare
Grisha
Ladies
Romance with a double bass
The chorus girl
The first-class passenger
Difficult people
On the road
The beggar
Enemies
The letter
Volodya
Luck
The siren
The shepherd's pipe
Costly lessons
The kiss
Boys
Kashtanka
The name-day party
A breakdown
The bet
The princess
After the theater
History of a business enterprise
Neighbors
Fear
Big Volodya and little Volodya
The teacher of literature
In a country house
The Pecheneg
In the cart
About love
Ionych
The new dacha

LCCN:

2019022613

Control Number:

2983378

Other Authors:

Pevear, Richard, 1943- translator
Volokhonsky, Larissa, translator
translation of: Chekhov, Anton Pavlovich, 1860-1904. Short stories. Selections. English

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