The Beauties by Anton Chekhov
The essential edition of the greatest stories by the Russian master of the form-
The Living Stones
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Ice
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Kokoro
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The Unhappiness of Being a Single Man
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Goose of Hermogenes
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Beware of Pity
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The Crying of the Wind
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The Samurai
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Journey by Moonlight
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And the Earth Will Sit on the Moon
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Parisian Days
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Murder in the Age of Enlightenment
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The Collected Stories of Stefan Zweig
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Flight Without End
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Wolf Moon
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Effi Briest
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Background for Love
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Gothic Tales
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The Evenings
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Clouds over Paris: The Wartime Notebooks of Felix Hartlaub
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The Pendragon Legend
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The Spectre of Alexander Wolf
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A Different Sound
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Nocturnal Apparitions
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The Book of Paradise
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Hidden Faces
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In Farthest Seas
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The Last Miracle: Jewish Stories
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The Story of a Single Woman
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The Hunting Gun
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The Allure of Chanel
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The Friend of the Family
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Weights and Measures
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I Was Jack Mortimer
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Death in Venice
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Notes from Fuhrer HQ
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Troubled Waters
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Sevastopol Tales
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Love and Enchantment
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Conversations with Rilke
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The Siren's Lament
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Birds, Beasts and a World Made New
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Letters to Isabella Stewart Gardner
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A Time to Be Born
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No Way Back
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Poems to Night
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Yevgeny Onegin
“This beautifully produced selection of the stories from Pushkin Press (in a new translation by Nicolas Pasternak Slater) is an ideal way to discover Chekhov” —The Times (UK)
“Mysterious and mesmerizing, these stories stay enshrined in the memory.” —The Daily Mail
“Near-perfect fiction, newly translated.” —Evening Standard
“The uncontestable father of the modern short story . . . his stories are some of the best that have ever been written.” —The Guardian
“The language is subtle and lovely, full of a regretful tenderness.” —Sunday Express
“Chekhov's genius lies in the way he manages to convey with such apparent effortlessness a profound sense of the mystery of beauty, and of the sadness of those who observe and think . . . a masterpiece of minimalism” —Phillip Pullman
“The greatest short story writer who has ever lived” —Raymond Carver
“In Chekhov literature seems to break its wand like Prospero, renouncing the magic of artifice, ceremony and idealization, and facing us, for the first time, with a reflection of ourselves in our unadorned ordinariness as well as our unfathomable strangeness.” —James Ladsun
“Mysterious and mesmerizing, these stories stay enshrined in the memory.” —The Daily Mail
“Near-perfect fiction, newly translated.” —Evening Standard
“The uncontestable father of the modern short story . . . his stories are some of the best that have ever been written.” —The Guardian
“The language is subtle and lovely, full of a regretful tenderness.” —Sunday Express
“Chekhov's genius lies in the way he manages to convey with such apparent effortlessness a profound sense of the mystery of beauty, and of the sadness of those who observe and think . . . a masterpiece of minimalism” —Phillip Pullman
“The greatest short story writer who has ever lived” —Raymond Carver
“In Chekhov literature seems to break its wand like Prospero, renouncing the magic of artifice, ceremony and idealization, and facing us, for the first time, with a reflection of ourselves in our unadorned ordinariness as well as our unfathomable strangeness.” —James Ladsun
Anton Chekhov (1860-1904) was born in Taganrog, Russia, the son of a grocer. While training as a physician he supported his family with his freelance writing, composing hundreds of short comic pieces under a pen name for local magazines. He went on to write major works of drama, including The Seagull, Uncle Vanya and The Cherry Orchard, but continued to write prize-winning short stories up until his death from tuberculosis at the age of 44.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781805330301 |
| ISBN 10 | 1805330306 |
| Title | The Beauties |
| Author | Anton Chekhov |
| Series | Pushkin Press Classics Ser |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Pushkin Press |
| Year published | 2023-11-30 |
| Number of pages | 224 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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