Longer stories from the last decade
Subtitle: edited, and with an introduction, by Shelby Foote ; translated by Constance Garnett
By: Anton Chekhov.
Contributors: Garnett, Constance Black, 1862-1946.; Foote, Shelby.
Publisher: Modern Library
Published: 1999
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 611
Subjects: Chekhov, Anton Pavlovich, 1860-1904 -- Translations into English
Genres: Translations into English.
Description: "Some six hundred tales bear Chekhov's name, not a few of which are the famous "long short stories" written during roughly the last decade of his brief life. This volume gives us eleven of these, in eminent translations by Constance Garnett and chosen by Shelby Foote. Perhaps the most autobiographical is "Three Years," which offers a portrayal of mercantile greed and exploitation that was new to Russian literature. "The Duel" is the story of Ivan Layevsky, a self-styled "St.

Petersburg Hamlet," who, filled with Tolstoyan ideas of a noble life of toil on the land, escapes (with another man's wife) to the Caucasus. The ensuing philosophical confrontations among the major characters clearly resemble those in Uncle Vanya. And in the masterly "Ward No. 6," a doctor disgusted by the stupidity and misery of the world of normal men, forms such a close relationship with an interesting lunatic that society declares the doctor a lunatic too and incarcerates him.

The story is devastatingly symbolic of the corruption and hopelessness in Russia toward the end of the autocracy."--BOOK JACKET.
Table of contents: title: The duel; title: The wife; title: Ward number six; title: An anonymous story; title: The black monk; title: A woman's kingdom; title: Three years; title: The murder; title: My life; title: Peasants; title: In the ravine.