The Greatest Short Stories Of Anton Chekhov

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Publisher : Jaico Publishing House
Page : 252 pages
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Release : 2016-06-04
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9788184958546

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Best Short Stories of Anton Chekov by - Pdf

Considered by many as the greatest short story writer the world has seen, Anton Chekhov changed the genre itself with his spare, impressionistic depictions of Russian life and the human condition. From characteristically brief, evocative early pieces such as The Huntsman and his masterpiece A Bet to his best-known stories such as The Lady with the Little Toy Dog and The Requiem, this collection of Chekhov’s remarkable short fiction possesses the unmatched power of art to awe and change the reader. This endlessly pleasing edition, expertly translated, is especially faithful to the meaning of Chekhov’s prose and the unique rhythms of his writing, giving readers an authentic sense of his style and a true understanding of his greatness.

Author : Anton Chekhov
Publisher : Courier Corporation
Page : 99 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2012-08-31
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780486153537

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Five Great Short Stories by Anton Chekhov Pdf

Masterfully written tales by one of the greatest practitioners of the form. Stories include "The Black Monk," "The House with the Mezzanine," "The Peasants," "Gooseberries," and "The Lady with the Toy Dog."

Author : Anton Chekhov
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2024-06-17
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0848825756

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Short Stories by Anton Chekhov by Anton Chekhov Pdf

Author : Anton Chekhov
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9386450208

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The Very Best Of Anton Chekhov by Anton Chekhov Pdf

Anton Chekhov was a Russian playwright and short story writer, who is considered to be among the greatest writers of short fiction in history. His career as a playwright produced four classics and his short stories are held in high esteem by both writers and critics. Chekhov practiced as a medical doctor throughout most of his literary career: "Medicine is my lawful wife", he once said, "and literature is my mistress." He was a literary artist with a crisp style who probed below the surface of life, laying bare the secret motives of his characters. He could take the most trivial, simple incidents from everyday material and create magical stories from them. As he liked to put it, ?To the people you must offer people and not yourself.? While weaving these events with everyday characters, Chekov, in a peculiar fashion, also gives you a very real glimpse of Russian life during his time. You may as well be walking among his characters. Chekhov's best plays and short stories lack complex plots and neat solutions. Concentrating on apparent trivialities, they create a special kind of atmosphere, sometimes termed haunting or lyrical. This collection includes some of his most memorable stories, including The Huntsman, The Lady with the Dog, About Love, and The Black Monk. These stories will give you a glimpse into his greatness and a taste of his incomparable style. Embassy Books proudly presents this book as part of the Embassy Classics Series, which comprises of some of the finest literary works of great authors.

Author : Anton Chekhov
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 578 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2007-12-18
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780307428295

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The Complete Short Novels by Anton Chekhov Pdf

(Book Jacket Status: Jacketed) Aanton 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.

Author : Anton Pavlovich Chekhov,Ralph E. Matlaw
Publisher : W W Norton & Company Incorporated
Page : 369 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 1979
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0393090027

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Anton Chekhov's Short Stories by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov,Ralph E. Matlaw Pdf

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

Author : Anton Pavlovich Chekhov
Publisher : Knopf
Page : 529 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2020
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780525520818

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Fifty-two Stories, 1883-1898 by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov Pdf

From the celebrated, award-winning translators of Anna Karenina and War and Peace a lavish, masterfully rendered volume of stories by one of the most influential short fiction writers of all time. Chekhov's genius left an indelible impact on every literary form in which he wrote, but none more so than short fiction. Now, renowned translators and longtime house authors Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky give us their peerless renderings of fifty-two Chekhov stories--a full deck These stories, which span the full arc of his career, reveal the extraordinary variety and unexpectedness of his work, from the farcically comic to the darkly complex, showing that there is no one type of "Chekhov story." They are populated by a remarkable range of characters who come from all parts of Russia, all walks of life, and who, taken together, have democratized the short story. Included here are a number of never-before-translated stories, including "Reading" and "An Educated Blockhead." Here is a collection that promises profound delight.

Author : Anton Pavlovich Chekhov
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 364 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Stories, Russian
ISBN : 0760719810

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The Best Stories of Anton Chekhov by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov Pdf

Author : Anton Chekhov
Publisher : Fingerprint! Publishing
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2022-10-10
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9354406319

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The Greatest Short Stories of Anton Chekhov by Anton Chekhov Pdf

" Life is a vexatious trap; when a thinking man reaches maturity and attains to full consciousness, he cannot help feeling that he is in a trap from which there is no escape." One of the greatest Russian short story writers and an exemplary playwright, Anton Chekhov penned down some of the finest short stories and plays in literature. His works continue to be translated into various languages across the world. This hardbound deluxe edition brings together his early short stories along with the outstanding short fiction written in his later years. It includes ' The Death of a Government Clerk, ' ' The Huntsman, ' ' Oh! The Public, ' ' Anyuta, ' ' Misery, ' ' The Lottery Ticket, ' ' A Dreary Story, ' ' Peasant Wives, ' ' The Lady with the Dog, ' and his last completed story, ' Betrothed.' This classic collectable is a must-read for all! - A timeless collection of Anton Chekhov's renowned stories - This hardbound deluxe edition brings together his early short stories - The varied themes and thought-provoking ideas will take the reader on an adventurous journey - This covetable deluxe edition comes with gilded edges, a ribbon bookmark, and beautiful endpapers - It is perfect for gifting and will make a good addition to any library

Author : James Daley
Publisher : Courier Corporation
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2012-03-05
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780486114798

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The World's Greatest Short Stories by James Daley Pdf

Ranging from the 19th to the 20th centuries, this wonderfully wide-ranging and enjoyable anthology includes Tolstoy, Kipling, Chekhov, Joyce, Kafka, Pirandello, Mann, Updike, Borges, and other major writers of world literature.

Author : Anton Chekhov
Publisher : Miniature Masterpieces
Page : 138 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2017-03-20
Category : Short stories, Russian
ISBN : 178000902X

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Anton Chekhov - The Beggar & Other Short Stories (Volume 9) by Anton Chekhov Pdf

The short story is often viewed as an inferior relation to the Novel. But it is an art in itself. To take a story and distil its essence into fewer pages while keeping character and plot rounded and driven is not an easy task. Many try and many fail. A widespread favourite of scholars, critics and causal readers alike, Anton Chekhov is one of the most challenging and enjoyable authors to read. Both a doctor and writer, Chekhov initially had little interest in literature, writing predominantly as a source of income. As recognition of his talents spread so his ambition grew he began to assert itself and history now acknowledges him as the greatest short story writer of all time.

Author : Anton Chekhov
Publisher : DigiCat
Page : 43 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2022-08-10
Category : Art
ISBN : EAN:8596547161691

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The Murder by Anton Chekhov Pdf

'The Murder' is a short story written by Anton Chekhov. It begins at the evening service celebrated at Progonnaya Station. Before the great ikon, painted in glaring colors on a background of gold, stood the crowd of railway servants with their wives and children, and also of the timbermen and sawyers who worked close to the railway line. All stood in silence, fascinated by the glare of the lights and the howling of the snow-storm which was aimlessly disporting itself outside, regardless of the fact that it was the Eve of the Annunciation. The old priest from Vedenyapino conducted the service; the sacristan and Matvey Terehov were singing.

Author : Florence Goyet
Publisher : Open Book Publishers
Page : 177 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2014-01-13
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781909254756

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The Classic Short Story, 1870-1925 by Florence Goyet Pdf

The ability to construct a nuanced narrative or complex character in the constrained form of the short story has sometimes been seen as the ultimate test of an author's creativity. Yet during the time when the short story was at its most popular - the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries - even the greatest writers followed strict generic conventions that were far from subtle. This expanded and updated translation of Florence Goyet's influential La Nouvelle, 1870-1925: Description d'un genre à son apogée (Paris, 1993) is the only study to focus exclusively on this classic period across different continents. Ranging through French, English, Italian, Russian and Japanese writing - particularly the stories of Guy de Maupassant, Henry James, Giovanni Verga, Anton Chekhov and Akutagawa Ry?nosuke - Goyet shows that these authors were able to create brilliant and successful short stories using the very simple 'tools of brevity' of that period. In this challenging and far-reaching study, Goyet looks at classic short stories in the context in which they were read at the time: cheap newspapers and higher-end periodicals. She demonstrates that, despite the apparent intention of these stories to question bourgeois ideals, they mostly affirmed the prejudices of their readers. In doing so, her book forces us to re-think our preconceptions about this 'forgotten' genre.

Author : Anton Chekhov
Publisher : Bristol Classical Press
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 1998-03-27
Category : Fiction
ISBN : IND:30000037401803

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Chekhov: Selected Short Stories by Anton Chekhov Pdf

Anton Chekhov has long been regarded as the master of the Russian short story and one of the leading exponents of the genre in world literature. This volume comprises the classic selection edited by Birkett and Struve, in Russian, here furnished with a new bibliography, and complements the stories and plays by Chekhov already available in the BCP Russian Texts series. The twelve stories, which date from 1883 to 1896, range from miniatures of comic levity such as Tolsttyi i tonkii to stories of sophisticated maturity such as Dom s mezoninom. The stories included are as follows (titles given in English translation): Fat Man and Thin Man; The Boys; A Test for Rank; A Failure; A Little Joke; The Blank Catch; The Beauties; The Student; At Yuletide; An Incident in Practice; Anna Round the Neck; The House with the Mezzanine.

Author : Nikolai Gogol,Anton Chekov,Samuel Langhorne Clemens,Arthur Machen,Henri Kathleen Mansfield Beauchamp Murry,Ambrose Gwinnett Bierce,O. Henry,Edgar Alphonse Daudet,J-D Labranche
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 199 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2020-09-07
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1688221166

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The Best Short Stories of All Time by Nikolai Gogol,Anton Chekov,Samuel Langhorne Clemens,Arthur Machen,Henri Kathleen Mansfield Beauchamp Murry,Ambrose Gwinnett Bierce,O. Henry,Edgar Alphonse Daudet,J-D Labranche Pdf

- Including short biographies of authors This outstanding collection features short stories by a variety of great authors. Ranging from the 19th to the 20th centuries, writers include, Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald, Henri Nathaniel Hawthorne, Anton Pavlovich Chekhov, Stephen Crane, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, O. Henry, Edgar Alphonse Daudet, Samuel Langhorne Clemens, Frank Richard Stockton, Nikolai Vasilievich Gogol and Arthur Machen, Henri Kathleen Mansfield Beauchamp Murry.