FIFTY-TWO STORIES. 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 Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky give us their superb renderings of fifty-two Chekhov stories.
Chekhov, widely hailed as the supreme master of the short story, also wrote five works long enough to be called short novels. Anton Chekhov's short novels are 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.
By Anton Chekhov. Anton Chekhov's short novels are 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. In these five short novels, Chekhov's masterful storytelling and his profound understanding of human nature are …
Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky, the highly acclaimed translators of War and Peace, Doctor Zhivago, and Anna Karenina, which was an Oprah Book Club pick and million-copy bestseller, bring their unmatched talents to The Selected Stories of Anton Chekhov, a collection of thirty of Chekhov’s best tales from the major periods of his creative life.
Chekhov's grandfather was a serf, who had bought his own freedom and that of his three sons in 1841.
I have read the previous arguments with interest (for instance, by Gary Saul Morson and Helen Andrews), but they… This volume, which spans the full arc of Chekhov's career and includes a number of tales translated into English for the first time, reveals the extraordinary variety of his work.
Knopf. 508 pages.
5 reviews From ... Anton Pavlovich Chekhov (Russian: Антон Павлович Чехов) was born in the small seaport of Taganrog, southern Russia, the son of a grocer.
Translated by Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky. Now, renowned translators Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky give us their superb renderings of fifty-two Chekhov stories. Janet Malcolm contributes the latest polemic against Richard Pevear and Linda Volokhonsky (hereafter P&V), the famed husband-and-wife translators of the Russian classics, whose preeminence in their field is now being challenged by a number of critics.
Chekhov’s genius left an indelible impact on every literary form in which he wrote, but none more so than short fiction.
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