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" The complete short novels / "
Anton Chekhov ; translated from the Russian by Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky ; with an introduction by Richard Pevear.
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BL
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972907
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b727277
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Short stories.English
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Chekhov, Anton Pavlovich,1860-1904.
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The complete short novels /\ Anton Chekhov ; translated from the Russian by Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky ; with an introduction by Richard Pevear.
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1st Vintage Classics ed.
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First Vintage classics edition.
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New York :: Vintage Classics,, 2005.
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Vintage classics
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xxii, 548 pages ;; 20 cm.
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140003292X
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: 9781400032921
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Includes bibliographical references.
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Anton 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. From the Hardcover edition.
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Chekhov, Anton Pavlovich,1860-1904
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Chekhov, Anton Pavlovich,1860-1904
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Chekhov, Anton Pavlovich,1860-1904.
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891.733
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PG3456.A13P48 2005
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Pevear, Richard,1943-
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Volokhonsky, Larissa
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Chekhov, Anton Pavlovich,1860-1904.
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Chekhov, Anton Pavlovich,1860-1904.
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Chekhov, Anton Pavlovich,1860-1904.
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Chekhov, Anton Pavlovich,1860-1904.
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