The complete short novels
By: Anton Chekhov ; translated from the Russian by Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky ; with an introduction by Richard Pevear.
Contributors: Pevear, Richard, 1943-; Volokhonsky, Larissa.
Publisher: Everyman's Library
Published: 2004
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 548
Subjects: Chekhov, Anton Pavlovich, 1860-1904 -- Translations into English
Genres: Translations into English.
Description: "The Steppe 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 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."--Page 2 of cover.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. xxiv-xxv).
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Table of contents: title: The steppe; title: The duel; title: The story of an unknown man; title: Three years; title: My life.