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The Complete Short Novels of Anton Chekhov: Introduction by Richard Pevear

The Complete Short Novels of Anton Chekhov: Introduction by Richard Pevear

Chekhov, Anton
Volokhonsky, Larissa
Pevear, Richard

Hardcover

Series: Everyman's Library Classics

Classic FictionGeneral FictionLiterary Fiction

Publisher Price: $36.00

ISBN10: 1400040493
ISBN13: 9781400040490
Publisher: Everyman's Library
Published: Aug 3 2004
Pages: 600
Weight: 1.35
Height: 1.30 Width: 5.20 Depth: 8.34
Language: English

Anton Chekhov, widely hailed as the supreme master of the short story, also wrote five works long enough to be called short novels-here brought together in one volume for the first time, in a masterly new translation by the award-winning translators Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky.

The Steppe--the most lyrical of the five--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 that 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.

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