The Other Chekhov
By: edited by Okla Elliott and Kyle Minor ; translations by Constance Garnett
Contributors: Elliott, Okla; Minor, Kyle; Garnett, Constance, 1861-1946
Publisher: New American Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: [Fort Collins, Colo.]
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 239
ISBN-13: 9780972967983
Copyright date: 2008
Subjects: Translations into English
Work titles: Short stories
Description: Father of the contemporary short story, Anton Chekhov is widely known as a master of the subtle and the quotidian. But many of the more than 500 stories Chekhov published during his lifetime are deeply grounded in the realities of war, poverty, and violence that shaped daily life in nineteenth-century Russia. This volume presents ten lesser-known masterpieces from this other Chekhov, each introduced by a contemporary author such as Pinckney Benedict, Fred Chappell, Christopher Coake, Jeff Parker, Benjamin Percy, or David R. Slavitt.
Table of contents: title: The two Volodyas; title: In a strange land; title: The kiss; title: The dead body; title: From the diary of a violent-tempered man; title: The witch; title: Misery; title: Gusev; title: The huntsman; title: The murder.