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The Seagull (Paperback)
Jean-Claude Van Itallie; Anton Pavlovich Chekhov
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This collection of short stories by Anton Chekhov contains The Lady
with the Dog, Ward No. 6, The Black Monk, Anna on the Neck, The
House with the Mezzanine, and In the Ravine. This is a
dual-language book with the Russian text on the left side, and the
English text on the right side of each spread. The texts are
precisely synchronized. See more details about this and other books
on Russian Novels in Russian and English page on Facebook.
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.
Chekhov, widely hailed as the supreme master of the short story,
also wrote five works long enough to be called short novels. "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 to enroll in a distant school. "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 plans to spy on an important official by serving as valet
to his son, however, as he gradually becomes involved as a silent
witness in the intimate life of his young employer, he finds 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,
engaging time as a narrative element in a way unusual in Chekhov's
fiction. In "My Life, a man renounces wealth and social position
for a life of manual labor, and the resulting conflict between the
moral simplicity of his ideals and the complex realities of human
nauture culminates in an apocalyptic vision that is unique in
Chekhov's work.
In these five short novels, Chekhov's masterful storytelling and
his profound understanding of human nature are brilliantly evinced.
"From the Hardcover edition.
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