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Early stories / Anton Chekhov ; translated with an introduction and notes by Patrick Miles and Harvey Pitcher.
LIBRA Special PG3456.A15 M5 1999
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Chekhov, Anton Pavlovich, 1860-1904.
- Series:
- Oxford world's classics
- Standardized Title:
- Short stories. Selections. English
- Language:
- English
- Russian
- Subjects (All):
- Chekhov, Anton Pavlovich, 1860-1904--Translations into English.
- Chekhov, Anton Pavlovich.
- Chekhov, Anton Pavlovich, 1860-1904.
- Russia--Social life and customs--Fiction.
- Russia.
- Manners and customs.
- Genre:
- Fiction.
- Short stories.
- Penn Provenance:
- Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- 204 pages ; 20 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 1999.
- Summary:
- This is the most representative selection of Chekhov's early comic and serious stories available in one volume in English. This selection, including the pastoral comedy Romance with Double-Bass, the absurdist comedy The Death of a Civil Servant, the hauntingly lyrical Easter Night, and the chilling Let Me Sleep, to name a few, exemplifies the masterful range of the young Chekhov.
- Contents:
- Rapture
- The death of a civil servant
- Incident at law
- Fat and thin
- The daughter of Albion
- Oysters
- A dreadful night
- Minds in ferment
- The complaints book
- The chameleon
- The huntsman
- The malefactor
- A man of ideas
- Sergeant Prishibeyev
- The misfortune
- Romance with double-bass
- The witch
- Grisha
- Kids
- Revenge
- Easter night
- The little joke
- The objet d'Art
- The chorus-girl
- Dreams
- The orator
- Vanka
- Verochka
- A drama
- Typhus
- Notes from the journal of a quick-tempered man
- The reed-pipe
- The kiss
- No comment
- Let me sleep.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 201-202).
- ISBN:
- 0192837567
- 9780192837561
- OCLC:
- 50853827
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