Anton Chekhov's only full-length novel, this Penguin Classics
edition of The Shooting Party is translated and edited by Ronald
Wilks, with an introduction by John Sutherland. The Shooting Party
centres on Olga, the pretty young daughter of a drunken forester on
a country estate, and her fateful relationships with the men in her
life. Adored by Urbenin, the estate manager, whom she marries to
escape the poverty of her home, she is also desired by the
dissolute Count Karneyev and by Zinovyev, a magistrate, who knows
the secret misery of her marriage. When an attempt is made on
Olga's life in the woods, it seems impossible to discover the
perpetrator in an impenetrable web of lust, deceit, loathing and
double-dealing. One of Chekhov's earliest experiments in fiction
combines the classic elements of a gripping mysterywith a short
story of corruption, concealed love and fatal jealousy. Ronald
Wilks's brilliant new translation of this work is the first in over
seventy years. It brilliantly captures the immediacy of the
dialogue that Chekhov was later to develop into his great dramas.
This edition also includes an introduction by John Sutherland,
suggestions for further reading and explanatory notes. Anton
Chekhov (1860-1904) was born in Taganrog, a port on the sea of
Azov. In 1879 he travelled to Moscow, where he entered the medical
faculty of the university, graduating in 1884. During his
university years, he supported his family by contributing humorous
stories and sketches to magazines. He published his first volume of
stories, Motley Tales, in 1886, and a year later his second volume
In the Twilight, for which he received the Pushkin Prize. Today his
plays, including 'Uncle Vanya', 'The Seagull', and 'The Cherry
Orchard' are recognised as masterpieces the world over. If you
enjoyed The Shooting Party, you might like Chekhov's Plays, also
available in Penguin Classics.
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