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portada The Complete Short Novels
Type
Physical Book
Year
2004
Language
English
Pages
600
Format
Hardcover
Dimensions
21.2 x 13.2 x 3.3 cm
Weight
0.61 kg.
ISBN
1400040493
ISBN13
9781400040490
Edition No.
1

The Complete Short Novels

Anton Chekhov (Author) · Richard Pevear (Translated by) · Larissa Volokhonsky (Translated by) · Everyman's Library · Hardcover

The Complete Short Novels - Chekhov, Anton ; Volokhonsky, Larissa ; Pevear, Richard

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Synopsis "The Complete Short Novels"

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.

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