Early Short Stories, 1883-1888

by Anton Chekhov

Book Overview

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... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0679603174
• ISBN13: 9780679603177
• Release Date: January 1999
• Publisher: Modern Library
• Length: 642 Pages
• Weight: 1.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.5" x 5.7" x 8.5"

Customer Reviews

The best English 1 volume representation of early stories

The aim of the editors is to present the best one- volume English representation of the early stories. In their outstanding introduction to the volume they define very clearly one important aspect of Chekhov's greatness as short- story teller. He had " a marvelous ability to enter into the lives of characters completely to ' inform' as Keats said of the poet, the lives of men , women, children animals and even plants and landscape. And make the reader experience the world from their point- of - view." Chekhov is a writer who makes the reader have great sympathy for most of his characters. And this even when he is depicting people who are ' unscrewed' in various ways. In these stories there are depictions of unfulfilled lives of lives which feel differently at different times. There are also all the comic modes and devices at work of the early much loved and appreciated Chekhov. This work has an outstanding introduction by its translators Miles and Pitcher.