The Steppe

By Anton Chekhov and Anton Tchekhov

Book Overview

The Steppe, subtitled The Story of a Journey, is a novella by Russian playwright Anton Chekhov first published in 1888. In 1887, exhausted from overwork and ill health, Chekhov took a trip to Ukraine, which reawakened him to the beauty of the steppe. On his return, he began the novella-length short story, which he called "something rather odd and much too original," and which was eventually published in Severny Vestnik (The Northern Herald). In a narrative that drifts with the thought processes of the characters, Chekhov evokes a chaise journey across the steppe through the eyes of a young boy sent to live away from home, and his companions, a priest and a merchant. The Steppe has been called a "dictionary of Chekhov's poetics", and it represented a significant advance for Chekhov, exhibiting much of the quality of his mature fiction and winning him publication in a literary journal rather than a newspaper.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1544861036
• ISBN13: 9781544861036
• Release Date: January 1
• Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 0.76 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 9.0"