The Essential Tales Of Chekhov

Author : Anton Chekhov
Publisher : Harper Collins
ISBN 13 : 0060956569
Total Pages : 372 pages
Book Rating : 4.61/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Essential Tales of Chekhov written by Anton Chekhov and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2000-06-20 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Of the two hundred stories that Anton Chekhov wrote, the twenty stories that appear in this extraordinary collection were personally chosen by Richard Ford--an accomplished storyteller in his own right. Included are the familiar masterpieces--"The Kiss," "The Darling," and "The Lady with the Dog"--as well as several brilliant lesser-known tales such as "A Blunder," "Hush!," and "Champagne." These stories, ordered from 1886 to 1899, are drawn from Chekhov's most fruitful years as a short-story writer. A truly balanced selection, they exhibit the qualities that make Chekhov one of the greatest fiction writers of all time: his gift for detail, dialogue, and humor; his emotional perception and compassion; and his understanding that life's most important moments are often the most overlooked. "The reason we like Chekhov so much, now at our century's end," writes Ford in his perceptive introduction, "is because his stories from the last century's end feel so modern to us, are so much of our own time and mind." Exquisitely translated by the renowned Constance Garnett, these stories present a wonderful opportunity to introduce yourself--or become reaquainted with--an artist whose genius and influence only increase with every passing generation.

Author : Anton Pavlovich Chekhov
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 337 pages
Book Rating : 4.18/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Essential Tales of Chekhov written by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Anton Chekhov
Publisher : Ecco
ISBN 13 : 9780062393869
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.63/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Essential Tales Of Chekhov Deluxe Edition written by Anton Chekhov and published by Ecco. This book was released on 2015-06-23 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From one of Russia’s greatest writers, Anton Chekhov, an indispensable collection of stories, full of humor, truth, and vast insight, selected and introduced by modern American virtuoso Richard Ford, available in a deluxe paperback edition—part of the Ecco Art of the Story series. One of the most beloved Russian writers, Anton Chekov had an indelible influence on many revered modern writers, including Richard Ford, Raymond Carver, Robert Stone, Nadine Gordimer, William Maxwell, and Ernest Hemingway. In this superb anthology, Ford, a master of short fiction in his own right, has chosen twenty of his personal favorites from among more than two hundred of Chekhov’s tales and short novels. Though they were composed more than a century ago, Chekhov’s stories hold timeless lessons and insights invaluable in our own age. The Essential Tales of Chekhov Deluxe Edition includes familiar masterpieces “The Kiss,” “The Darling,” and “The Lady with the Dog,” as well as several brilliant lesser-known tales—“A Blunder,” “Hush!,” and “Champagne.” These stories, ordered chronologically from 1886 to 1899, are drawn from Chekhov’s most fruitful years as a short story writer. The translation is done by the renowned Constance Garnett, who also brought Tolstoy, Dostoyevsky, and Turgenev to the English-speaking world.

Author : Anton Chekhov
Publisher : General Books
ISBN 13 : 9781458983725
Total Pages : 98 pages
Book Rating : 4.22/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Tales of Chekhov written by Anton Chekhov and published by General Books. This book was released on 2009-08 with total page 98 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Book may have numerous typos, missing text, images, or index. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. 1920. Not illustrated. Excerpt: ... "That money, my dear, deserves to be treated more seriously. It was earned by a good man, by honest labour." "You have told me that already. I know it." At first we drive through the open country, then through the pine-wood which is visible from my window. Nature seems to me as beautiful as it always has been, though some evil spirit whispers to me that these pines and fir trees, birds, and white clouds on the sky, will not notice my absence when in three or four months I am dead. Katya loves driving, and she is pleased that it is fine weather and that I am sitting beside her. She is in good spirits and does not say harsh things. "You are a very good man, Nikolay Stepanovitch," she says. "You are a rare specimen, and there isn't an actor who would understand how to play you. Me or Mihail Fyodorovitch, for instance, any poor actor could do, but not you. And I envy you, I envy you horribly! Do you know what I stand for? What?" She ponders for a minute, and then asks me: "Nikolay Stepanovitch, I am a negative phenomenon! Yes?" "Yes," I answer. "H'm! what am I to do?" What answer was I to make her? It is easy to say " work," or " give your possessions to the poor," or " know yourself," and because it is so easy to say that, I don't know what to answer. My colleagues when they teach therapeutics advise "the individual study of each separate case." One has but to obey this advice to gain the conviction that the methods recommended in the textbooks as the best and as providing a safe basis for treatment turn out to be quite unsuitable in individual cases. It is just the same in moral ailments. But I must make some answer, and I say: "You have too much free time, my dear; you absolutely must take up some occupation. After all, why shouldn't you be an actress again if it is ...

Author : Anton Chekhov
Publisher : 1st World Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1421821680
Total Pages : 270 pages
Book Rating : 4.89/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Cook's Wedding and Other Stories written by Anton Chekhov and published by 1st World Publishing. This book was released on 2006-07 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: GRISHA, a fat, solemn little person of seven, was standing by the kitchen door listening and peeping through the keyhole. In the kitchen something extraordinary, and in his opinion never seen before, was taking place. A big, thick-set, red-haired peasant, with a beard, and a drop of perspiration on his nose, wearing a cabman's full coat, was sitting at the kitchen table on which they chopped the meat and sliced the onions. He was balancing a saucer on the five fingers of his right hand and drinking tea out of it, and crunching sugar so loudly that it sent a shiver down Grisha's back. Aksinya Stepanovna, the old nurse, was sitting on the dirty stool facing him, and she, too, was drinking tea. Her face was grave, though at the same time it beamed with a kind of triumph. Pelageya, the cook, was busy at the stove, and was apparently trying to hide her face.

Author : Anton Pavlovich Chekhov
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781975740535
Total Pages : 346 pages
Book Rating : 4.3X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Tales of Chekhov written by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov and published by . This book was released on 2017-08-27 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first of thirteen volumes of Anton Chekhov's short stories, translated by Constance Garnett.Anton Chekhov was a Russian doctor who turned to fiction as a hobby, and quickly blossomed into one of the masters of the short story genre. Though he is arguably best known for his dramatic works, such as The Cherry Orchard, his stories are widely considered to be some of the most perfect examples of short fiction ever written.Constance Black Garnett was an English housewife who taught herself Russian as a hobby, and subsequently introduced the English-speaking world to some of the greatest Russian authors, including Chekhov and Dostoevsky. Though she was almost entirely self-taught in her knowledge of Russian, she was a prolific translator, and her works are still lauded today for their readability and accuracy.

Author : Anton Pavlovich Chekhov
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781975702229
Total Pages : 66 pages
Book Rating : 4.20/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Uncle Vanya written by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov and published by . This book was released on 2017-08-23 with total page 66 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This structurally and psychologically compact drama takes place on an estate in 19th-century Russia, exploring the complex interrelationships between a retired professor, his second wife, and the daughter and brother-in-law from his first marriage. Interwoven themes of weakness, delusion, and despair are balanced by an underlying message of courage and hope.

Author : Anton Chekhov
Publisher : Alma Books
ISBN 13 : 0714545619
Total Pages : 529 pages
Book Rating : 4.15/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Sakhalin Island written by Anton Chekhov and published by Alma Books. This book was released on 2018-01-01 with total page 529 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1890, the thirty-year-old Chekhov, already knowing that he was ill with tuberculosis, undertook an arduous eleven-week journey from Moscow across Siberia to the penal colony on the island of Sakhalin. Now collected here in one volume are the fully annotated translations of his impressions of his trip through Siberia and the account of his three-month sojourn on Sakhalin Island, together with his notes and extracts from his letters to relatives and associates.Highly valuable both as a detailed depiction of the Tsarist system of penal servitude and as an insight into Chekhov's motivations and objectives for visiting the colony and writing the expose, Sakhalin Island is a haunting work which had a huge impact both on Chekhov's career and on Russian society.

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 :
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.99/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Tales of Chekhov written by Anton Chekhov and published by . This book was released on 2024-05-03 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dive into the intricacies of human nature with Anton Chekhov's The Bishop and Other Stories. From the poignant to the absurd, these tales offer glimpses into the complexities of life, love, and society. Each story is a masterpiece of nuance and insight, resonating long after the final page.