Early Stories by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

Early Stories by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

`Even if he had written nothing else', Ivan Bunin wrote of Chekhov's early stories, `we would still have said that an amazing mind had flashed through Russian literature'. His youthful work immediately established Chekhov as a leading writer of both comic and serious fiction. The humorous tales have delighted Russians since the 1880s, while the many admirers of the more serious stories include James Joyce and Katherine Mansfield. In this selection, stories with punchy endings jostle with outrageous paradies, fracical situations, the pastoral comedy of Romance with Double-Bass , and the absurdist humour of classics such as The Death of a Civil Servant . But the volume also contains some of Chekhov's finest stories about children, `non-love' stories like The Little Joke and The Kiss , the hauntingly lyrical Easter Night , and the chilling Let Me Sleep . This translation does full justice to the masterful range of the young Chekhov; for those unfamiliar with his early work this edition will be a revelation. This book is intended for students of Russian Literature/Comparative Literature/Nineteenth-Century Literature from A level up; general readers. Translated with an introduction and notes by: Miles, Patrick (Russian Lector, Gonville & Caius, Cambridge); Unknown function: Pitcher, Harvey (Freelance writer and translator)

Chekhov, Anton: - Anton Chekhov, Russian dramatist and short-story writer, was born in 1860, the son of a grocer and the grandson of a serf. After graduating in medicine from Moscow University in 1884, he began to make his name in the theatre with the one-act comedies The Bear, The Proposal and The Wedding. His earliest full-length plays, Ivanov (1887) and The Wood Demon (1889), were not successful, and The Seagull, produced in 1896, was a failure until a triumphant revival by the Moscow Art Theatre in 1898. This was followed by Uncle Vanya (1899), Three Sisters (1901) and The Cherry Orchard (1904), shortly after the production of which Chekhov died. The first English translations of his plays were performed within five years of his death.

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ISBN 13	9780192828149
ISBN 10	0192828142
Title	Early Stories
Author	Anton Pavlovich Chekhov
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Oxford University Press
Year published	1994-03-01
Number of pages	211
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