The duel
By: Anton Chekhov ; translated by Margarita Shalina
Contributors: Shalina, Margarita
Series: The art of the novella
Publisher: Melville House
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Brooklyn, N.Y
Language: eng
Number of pages: 161
ISBN-13: 9781935554509
Work titles: Duėlʹ
Description: "Hate you!" Laevsky said quietly, breathing heavily. "I've hated you a long time!" One of Chekhov's most important lengthy works, this remarkable story gives a startling twist to his classic, ongoing study of bourgeois romance when he sets it on a collision course with a decaying, Czarist concept of honor. It ends in the ultimate Chekhovian observation: that fate is often ludicrous.
Notes: Translated from the Russian.