The Steppe and Other Stories (Chekhov Anton); Everyman, 1991

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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Параметр	Значение
ISBN	9781857150452
Автор(ы)	Chekhov Anton
Вес	0.45
Возрастное ограничение	16+
Год издания	1991
Жанр	проза на иностранном языке
Издатель	Everyman
Издательство	Everyman
Кол-во страниц	324
Количество книг	1
Количество страниц	324
Обложка	твердый переплёт, суперобложка
Оформление обложки	суперобложка
Серия	Everyman`s Library
Тип обложки	твердая
Язык издания	eng