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Author
Language
English
Description
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....
Author
Publisher
Ecco Press
Pub. Date
1998
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
xix, 337 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"In this extraordinary collection of twenty tales, Richard Ford, a master short story writer in his own right, has selected his personal favorites from among more than two hundred of Chekhov's tales and short novels. These stories, ordered chronologically from 1886 to 1899, are drawn from Chekhov's most fruitful years as a short story writer. The translation is by Constance Garnett, who brought Tolstoy, Dostoyevsky, and Turgenev to the English-speaking...
6) The duel
Author
Publisher
Vintage Books
Pub. Date
2010
Edition
1st Vintage Classics ed.
Physical Desc
126 p. 20 cm.
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Modern Library
Pub. Date
1999
Physical Desc
xvii, 611 p. ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
Longer Stories from the Last Decade includes eleven works written in roughly the last ten years of the writer's life: "Three Years,""The
Duel,""Ward No. 6,""The Black Monk,""An Anonymous Story,""A Woman's Kingdom,""The Wife'""In the Ravine,""Peasants,""The
Murder," and "My Life." As Shelby Foote writes, this volume of stories "calls attention to a broader and deeper talent than has generally
been recognized, either by critics or the reading public,...
Author
Publisher
Dover Publications
Pub. Date
1999
Physical Desc
vii, 64 p. ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
Humorous gems by one of the masters of modern drama, including The Anniversary, a frenetic, behind-the-scenes look at the goings-on in a bank; An Unwilling Martyr, a humorous recital of an overburdened man’s chores and obligations; as well as The Wedding, The Bear and The Proposal. Immensely affordable edition for students, general readers and amateur and pressional theater groups.
16) Three plays
Author
Publisher
Modern Library
Pub. Date
2001
Edition
2001 Modern Library ed.
Physical Desc
xiv, 187 p. ; 21 cm.
Language
English
17) Five plays
Author
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Pub. Date
1998
Physical Desc
xxxi, 294 p. ; 19 cm.
Language
English
18) Stories
Author
Publisher
Bantam Books
Pub. Date
2000
Physical Desc
xxv, 467 p. ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
Called the greatest of short story writers, Chekhov changed the genre itself with his spare, impressionistic depictions of Russian life and the human condition.
Author
Publisher
W.W. Norton
Pub. Date
c2006
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
lx, 1060 p. : port. ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
Presents a collection of the complete plays of Russian writer Anton Chekov including newly discovered works and classics such as "The Seagull", "Three Sisters", and "The Cherry Orchard".
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