Chekhov: Selected Short Stories (Russian Texts) - Softcover

Chekhov, Anton Pavlovich

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1853994065 ISBN 13: 9781853994067

Verlag: Bloomsbury 3PL, 2013

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Anton Chekhov has long been regarded as the master of the Russian short story and one of the leading exponents of the genre in world literature. This volume comprises the classic selection edited by Birkett and Struve, in Russian, here furnished with a new bibliography, and complements the stories and plays by Chekhov already available in the BCP Russian Texts series. The twelve stories, which date from 1883 to 1896, range from miniatures of comic levity such as Tolsttyi i tonkii to stories of sophisticated maturity such as Dom s mezoninom. The stories included are as follows (titles given in English translation): Fat Man and Thin Man; The Boys; A Test for Rank; A Failure; A Little Joke; The Blank Catch; The Beauties; The Student; At Yuletide; An Incident in Practice; Anna Round the Neck; The House with the Mezzanine.

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Anton Chekhov (1860-1904), Russian physician, dramatist and author, is considered to be one of the greatest writers of short stories and modern drama. Born in Taganrog, a port town near the Black Sea, he attended medical school at Moscow University. He began writing to supplement his income, writing short humorous sketches of contemporary Russian life. A successful literary careered followed, before his premature death of TB at the age of 44. He is best-remembered for his four dramatic masterpieces: The Seagull (1896), Uncle Vanya (1899), Three Sisters (1901) and The Cherry Orchard (1904).

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• Verlag: Bloomsbury 3PL
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2013
• ISBN 10: 1853994065
• ISBN 13: 9781853994067
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Sprache: Englisch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 238
• Herausgeber: Struve Gleb, Birkett G.
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