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ISBN:	140003292X (ISBN13: 9781400032921)
Edition Language:	English

The Complete Short Novels

Anton Chekhov

Paperback | Pages: 548 pages

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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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Title	:	The Complete Short Novels
Author	:	Anton Chekhov
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	First Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 548 pages
Published	:	August 18th 2005 by Vintage Classics (first published 1896)
Categories	:	Fiction. Cultural. Russia. Classics. Short Stories. Literature. Russian Literature

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DNFI just got so bored and kept forgetting people's names and I wasn't blown away by any "revelation" of human nature. So ya......................

Second reading. This is a collection of novellas. My Life: A Provincial's Story is a brilliant, deeply impressive, story. Its structure is perfect, its characterizations deft, spot on, its descriptive passages vivid, tactile, redolent. Set in 1890 or so it's narrated by a young man, Misail, a noble, who has this highly romanticized notion of manual labor. (Based in part on Kropotkin's theories of cooperative evolutionary relationships. See Mutual Aid.) His contempt for so-called intellectual

It is really great to read an absolute master like Chekov. I used to like his short stories when I was a teenager, but it has been a while since I last had something by him in my hands. After reading an old book by Edmund Wilson where he tells about a trip to the Soviet Union and digresses a bit about Russian literature, I decided to try Chekhov again. And I loved it! Every story is populated with amazing characters, carefully developed, humanistic and tender. The building forces of Russian

This review is only for the short story, 'The House with an Attic'. This is a trademark Anton Chekhov short story. Only he could right this sort of beauties. Just like you spot a painting of Picasso at a glance , you can identify a good Anton Chekhov story by just reading couple of pages of it. That's why he's my favorite short story writer of all time.

I was surprised that David Gilmour chose to talk about Chekhov's personality, a matter so subjective (and where did he find the sources anyway), when there are so many more juicy, fact-backed tidbits to talk about:1) If we are talking about his virtues, isn't it likely that he contracted that tuberculosis because he was running left and right healing the peasants on his estate?2) How about the fact that he was not much of a romantic, and preferred professional touch? That he got married

I thoroughly enjoyed these five short novels and highly recommend them for anyone interested in Russian literature from the late 1800's. The new translation by Pevear and Volokhonsky is masterful. With the exception of The Steppe - which is a lovely story of a young boy who accompanies his uncle on a thousand mile journey across the steppe, all the other novels involve the exploration of love, relationships and the complexity of navigating through the changes that were taking place in

The Duel is one of the best novellas ever.