Fifty Two Stories

Author : Anton Pavlovich Chekhov
Publisher : Knopf
ISBN 13 : 0525520813
Total Pages : 529 pages
Book Rating : 4.18/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Fifty-two Stories, 1883-1898 written by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov and published by Knopf. This book was released on 2020 with total page 529 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 Chekhov
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780848825751
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.56/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Short Stories by Anton Chekhov written by Anton Chekhov and published by . This book was released on with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Anton Chekhov
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 030742829X
Total Pages : 578 pages
Book Rating : 4.95/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Complete Short Novels written by Anton Chekhov and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2007-12-18 with total page 578 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: (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 : Kay Boyle
Publisher : New Directions Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780811212069
Total Pages : 644 pages
Book Rating : 4.68/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Fifty Stories written by Kay Boyle and published by New Directions Publishing. This book was released on 1992 with total page 644 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Boyle, 50 Stories. An eloquent testament to the possibilities of living and writing.

Author : Giles Paley-Phillips
Publisher : Unbound Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1783527730
Total Pages : 219 pages
Book Rating : 4.31/5 ( download)

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Download or read book One Hundred and Fifty-Two Days written by Giles Paley-Phillips and published by Unbound Publishing. This book was released on 2020-03-05 with total page 219 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Superb, moving, beautiful' Joanna Cannon, author of The Trouble with Goats and Sheep He will be allowed to visit his mother soon. His mother who is terminally ill, his mother who he has been barred from seeing as he recovers from his own bout of pneumonia. Until then, with the help of his physiotherapist Freya, he must navigate his increasingly empty and isolated existence: his father, who finds solace in the bottom of a glass; his Nana Q, whose betting-slip confetti litters her handbag; his friends, who simply wouldn’t understand. Time passes with the promise of soon, but one hundred and fifty-two days later the boy will come face to face with his grief, and move beyond to a world full of possibility, hope and love.

Author : Anton Chekhov
Publisher : Courier Corporation
ISBN 13 : 0486153533
Total Pages : 99 pages
Book Rating : 4.37/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Five Great Short Stories written by Anton Chekhov and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 2012-08-31 with total page 99 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : Alfred H. Miles
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781409928591
Total Pages : 468 pages
Book Rating : 4.94/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Fifty-Two Stories for Girls written by Alfred H. Miles and published by . This book was released on 2008-12-01 with total page 468 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Alfred Henry Miles (1848-1929) was an English author, editor and composer. He compiled and edited a number of well known works for children at the end of the nineteenth and beginning of the twentieth century. His works include: The Poets and Poetry of the Century (edited) (10 vols, 1891-97), Natural History in Anecdote (1895), Successful Recitations (edited) (1902), Fifty-Two Stories of the Brave and True For Boys (edited) (1902), Fifty-Two Stories of the Brave and True For Girls (edited) (1902), Fifty-Two Stories For Girls (edited) (1905), The Sacred Poets of the Nineteenth Century (1906), Drawing Room Entertainments (1909), Ballads of Brave Women (1909), A Book of Brave Girls at Home and Abroad (1909), A Book of Brave Boys All the World Over (1909), The First Favourite Reciter (edited) (1909), Original Poems, Ballads, and Tales in Verse (1910), The Sweep of the Sword (1910), Twixt Life and Death on Sea and Shore (1910), Heroines of the Home and the World of Duty (1910), A Garland of Verse For Young People (1911), The Diner's-Out Vade Mecum (1912), Fifty-Two Stories of the Indian Mutiny (with Arthur John Pattle) (1915), A Book of Brave Boys (1915) and Heroes of History (1916).

Author : Donald Rayfield
Publisher : Faber & Faber
ISBN 13 : 0571309291
Total Pages : 594 pages
Book Rating : 4.90/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Anton Chekhov written by Donald Rayfield and published by Faber & Faber. This book was released on 2013-11-07 with total page 594 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The description 'definitive' is too easily used, but Donald Rayfield's biography of Chekhov merits it unhesitatingly. To quote no less an authority than Michael Frayn: 'With question the definitive biography of Chekhov, and likely to remain so for a very long time to come. Donald Rayfield starts with the huge advantage of much new material that was prudishly suppressed under the Soviet regime, or tactfully ignored by scholars. But his mastery of all the evidence, both old and new - a massive archive - is magisterial, his background knowledge of the period is huge; his Russian is sensitive to every colloquial nuance of the day, and his tone is sure. He captures a likeness of the notoriously elusive Chekhov which at last begins to seem recognisably human - and even more extraordinary.' Chekhov's life was short, he was only forty-four when he died, and dogged with ill-health but his plays and short stories assure him of his place in the literary pantheon. Here is a biography that does him full justice, in short, unapologetically to repeat that word 'definitive'. 'I don't remember any monograph by a Western scholar on a Russian author having such success. . . Nikita Mikhalkov said that before this book came out we didn't know Chekhov. . . The author doesn't invent, add or embellish anything . . . Rayfield is motivated by the Westerner's urge not ot hold information back, however grim it may be.' Anatoli Smelianski, Director of Moscow Arts Theatre School 'It is hard to imagine another book about Chekhov after this one by Donald Rayfield.' Arthur Miller, Sunday Times 'Donald Rayfield's exemplary biography draws on a daunting array of material inacessible or ignored by his predecessors.' Nikolai Tolstoy, The Literary Review 'Donald Rayfield, Chekhov's best and definitive biographer.' William Boyd, Guardian

Author : Dave Eggers
Publisher : Penguin UK
ISBN 13 : 014138932X
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.25/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Forty Stories written by Dave Eggers and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2012-04-05 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of pithy, brilliantly acerbic pieces is a companion to Sixty Stories, Barthelme's earlier retrospective volume. Barthelme spotlights the idiosyncratic, haughty, sometimes downright ludicrous behavior of human beings, but it is style rather than content which takes precedence.

Author : Anton Pavlovich Chekhov
Publisher : Alfred A. Knopf
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 400 pages
Book Rating : 4.06/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Image of Chekhov written by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov and published by Alfred A. Knopf. This book was released on 1963 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of the nineteenth century Russian author's short stories which reflect his development as a writer.