Name: Anton Chekhov's Short Stories
Rating: 4.134615384615385 (26 reviews)
ISBN: 9780393090024

Anton Chekhov

Ralph E. Matlaw

The thirty-four stories in this volume span Chekhov s creative career."

Texts of the Stories, Backgrounds, Criticism

Anton Chekhov's Short Stories

Karpe Diez

Gooseberries: La gura focului, povestea intelectualului scapatat fixat pe idealul vietii la tara, la o mosie langa lac, imprejmuita de tufe de coacaze... Dar, in acceptiunea lui Chehov, intelectualul trebuie sa aspire la idealuri legate de iluminarea maselor, in special in paturile taranesti. Si asta datorita faptului ca fericirea adevarata se obtine numai prin daruirea de sine. <br />Intr-un fel sau altul, aceasta povestire nu mi-a lasat o impresie marcanta. Tonul e prea serios pentru o lucrare atat de scurta, aproape didactic. Idealurile sunt infipte schitat intr-o lucrare care nu are puterea sa le elaboreze si, in final, suna neconvingator. 

The Duel

Nika Khoshdel

A new translation of the nineteenth-century Russian master's short classics includes The Steppe, The Duel, The Story of an Unknown Man, Three Years, and My Life. Reprint. 12,500 first printing.

The Complete Short Novels

Dmitry Gorshkov

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Nadav Spiegelman

Presents a collection of short stories, including "He understood," "The milksop," "In exile," and "Peasants."

Selected Stories

Zeke Taylor

Aleksandra Smelianska

About This Book "Hate you!" Laevsky said quietly, breathing heavily. "I've hated you a long time!" This new translation of the literary masterpiece— which combines a beautiful romance with high suspense— is here presented for the first time as a stand-alone volume. 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. This Is A Melville House “HybridBook” HybridBooks are a union of print and electronic media: Purchasers of this print edition also receive Illuminations—additional illustrated material that expand the world of Chekhov’s novella through text and illustrations—at no additional charge. To obtain the Illuminations for The Duel by Anton Chekhov, simply scan the QR code (or follow a url) found at the back of the print book, which leads to a page where you can download a file for your preferred electronic reading device. "Illuminations" contains writings by Mikhail Lermontov - Ivan Goncharov - Alexander Pushkin - Herbert Spencer - Friedrich Nietzsche - Jack London - Thomas Paine - Francis Bacon - Charles McKay – And a guide to the game of vint. Full-color illustrations include: William Hogarth - James Joseph Tissot - Jan Steen - The Shahnameh and more. Also Included: “Against The Duel: Writing In Protest of Dueling”

Moray Lyle McIntosh

Of the two hundred stories that Anton Chekhov wrote, the twenty stories that appear in this extraordinary collection were personally chosen by Richard Ford--an accomplished storyteller in his own right. Included are the familiar masterpieces--"The Kiss," "The Darling," and "The Lady with the Dog"--as well as several brilliant lesser-known tales such as "A Blunder," "Hush!," and "Champagne." These stories, ordered from 1886 to 1899, are drawn from Chekhov's most fruitful years as a short-story writer. A truly balanced selection, they exhibit the qualities that make Chekhov one of the greatest fiction writers of all time: his gift for detail, dialogue, and humor; his emotional perception and compassion; and his understanding that life's most important moments are often the most overlooked. "The reason we like Chekhov so much, now at our century's end," writes Ford in his perceptive introduction, "is because his stories from the last century's end feel so modern to us, are so much of our own time and mind." Exquisitely translated by the renowned Constance Garnett, these stories present a wonderful opportunity to introduce yourself--or become reaquainted with--an artist whose genius and influence only increase with every passing generation.

The Essential Tales of Chekhov

Joshua Line

"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, set two decadent figures - a fanatical rationalist and a man of literary sensibility - on a collision course that ends on 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 had 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 postion 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."--BOOK JACKET.

Amro Gebreel

A collection of six classic short stories portrays the problems of everyday life in nineteenth century Russia

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