Anton Chekhov
Subtitle: later short stories, 1888-1903
By: edited by Shelby Foote ; translated by Constance Garnett.
Contributors: Foote, Shelby.
Publisher: Modern Library
Published: 1999
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 628
Subjects: Chekhov, Anton Pavlovich, 1860-1904 -- Translations into English
Description: This volume presents forty-two of Chekhov's later short stories, written between 1888 and 1903, in acclaimed translations by Constance Garnett and chosen by Shelby Foote. Among the most outstanding are "A Dreary Story," a dispassionate tale that reflects Chekhov's doubts about his role as an artist.

Thomas Mann deemed it "a truly extraordinary, fascinating story ... unlike anything else in world literature." "The Darling," a delightful work highly admired by Tolstoy, offers comic proof that life has no meaning without love. And in "The lady with the Dog," which Vladimir Nabokov called "one of the greatest stories ever written," a chance affair takes possession of a bored young woman and a cynical roue, changing their lives forever.
Table of contents: title: Sleepy --; title: The beauties --; title: The party --; title: The shoemaker and the devil --; title: The bet --; title: A nervous breakdown --; title: The princess --; title: The horse-stealers --; title: Gusev --; title: Peasant wives --; title: The grasshopper --; title: After the theatre --; title: In exile --; title: Neighbours --; title: Terror --; title: The helpmate --; title: The two Volodyas --; title: Rothschild's fiddle --; title: The student --; title: The teacher of literature --; title: At the country house --; title: The head-gardener's story --; title: Whitebrow --; title: "Anna on the neck" --; title: Ariadne --; title: An artist's story --; title: The Petchenyeg --; title: At home --; title: The schoolmistress --; title: The man in a case --; title: Gooseberries --; title: About love --; title: Ionitch --; title: A doctor's visit --; title: A dreary story --; title: The darling --; title: The new villa --; title: On official duty --; title: The lady with the dog --; title: At Christmas time --; title: The bishop --; title: Betrothed.