The Cook's Wedding and Other Stories

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Publisher : 1st World Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1421821680
Total Pages : 270 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (218 download)

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Download or read book The Cook's Wedding and Other Stories written by Anton Chekhov and published by 1st World Publishing. This book was released on 2006-07 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: GRISHA, a fat, solemn little person of seven, was standing by the kitchen door listening and peeping through the keyhole. In the kitchen something extraordinary, and in his opinion never seen before, was taking place. A big, thick-set, red-haired peasant, with a beard, and a drop of perspiration on his nose, wearing a cabman's full coat, was sitting at the kitchen table on which they chopped the meat and sliced the onions. He was balancing a saucer on the five fingers of his right hand and drinking tea out of it, and crunching sugar so loudly that it sent a shiver down Grisha's back. Aksinya Stepanovna, the old nurse, was sitting on the dirty stool facing him, and she, too, was drinking tea. Her face was grave, though at the same time it beamed with a kind of triumph. Pelageya, the cook, was busy at the stove, and was apparently trying to hide her face.

The Essential Tales of Chekhov

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Publisher : Harper Collins
ISBN 13 : 9780060956561
Total Pages : 372 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (565 download)

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Download or read book The Essential Tales of Chekhov written by Anton Chekhov and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2000-06-20 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Of the two hundred stories that Anton Chekhov wrote, the twenty stories that appear in this extraordinary collection were personally chosen by Richard Ford--an accomplished storyteller in his own right. Included are the familiar masterpieces--"The Kiss," "The Darling," and "The Lady with the Dog"--as well as several brilliant lesser-known tales such as "A Blunder," "Hush!," and "Champagne." These stories, ordered from 1886 to 1899, are drawn from Chekhov's most fruitful years as a short-story writer. A truly balanced selection, they exhibit the qualities that make Chekhov one of the greatest fiction writers of all time: his gift for detail, dialogue, and humor; his emotional perception and compassion; and his understanding that life's most important moments are often the most overlooked. "The reason we like Chekhov so much, now at our century's end," writes Ford in his perceptive introduction, "is because his stories from the last century's end feel so modern to us, are so much of our own time and mind." Exquisitely translated by the renowned Constance Garnett, these stories present a wonderful opportunity to introduce yourself--or become reaquainted with--an artist whose genius and influence only increase with every passing generation.

The Darling and Other Stories

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Publisher : Library of Alexandria
ISBN 13 : 1465590447
Total Pages : 300 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (655 download)

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The Tales of Chekhov

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ISBN 13 : 9781437871012
Total Pages : 188 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (71 download)

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Download or read book The Tales of Chekhov written by Anton Chekhov and published by . This book was released on 2008-12-01 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Chekhov's Doctors

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Publisher : Kent State University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780873387804
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (878 download)

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Download or read book Chekhov's Doctors written by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov and published by Kent State University Press. This book was released on 2003 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In his brief life, Chekhov was a doctor, essayist, dramatist and a humanitarian. He saw no conflict between art and science or art and medicine. This collection of stories presents powerful portraits of doctors in their everyday lives, struggling with their own personal problems.

The Undiscovered Chekhov

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Publisher : Seven Stories Press
ISBN 13 : 9781583220269
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (22 download)

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Download or read book The Undiscovered Chekhov written by Anton Chekhov and published by Seven Stories Press. This book was released on 2000-05-02 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Undiscovered Chekhov gives us, in rich abundance, a new Chekhov. Peter Constantine's historic collection presents 38 new stories and with them a fresh interpretation of the Russian master. In contrast to the brooding representative of a dying century we have seen over and over, here is Chekhov's work from the 1880s, when Chekhov was in his twenties and his writing was sharp, witty and innovative. Many of the stories in The Undiscovered Chekhov reveal Chekhov as a keen modernist. Emphasizing impressions and the juxtaposition of incongruent elements, instead of the straight narrative his readers were used to, these stories upturned many of the assumptions of storytelling of the period. Here is "Sarah Bernhardt Comes to Town," written as a series of telegrams, beginning with "Have been drinking to Sarah's health all week! Enchanting! She actually dies standing up!..." In "Confession...," a thirty-nine year old bachelor recounts some of the fifteen times chance foiled his marriage plans. In "How I Came to be Lawfully Wed," a couple reminisces about the day they vowed to resist their parents' plans that they should marry. And in the more familiarly Chekhovian "Autumn," an alcoholic landowner fallen low and a peasant from his village meet far from home in a sad and haunting reunion in which the action of the story is far less important than the powerful impression it leaves with the reader that each man must live his life and has his reasons.

Fifty-two Stories, 1883-1898

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Publisher : Knopf
ISBN 13 : 0525520813
Total Pages : 529 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (255 download)

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Download or read book Fifty-two Stories, 1883-1898 written by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov and published by Knopf. This book was released on 2020 with total page 529 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the celebrated, award-winning translators of Anna Karenina and War and Peace a lavish, masterfully rendered volume of stories by one of the most influential short fiction writers of all time. Chekhov's genius left an indelible impact on every literary form in which he wrote, but none more so than short fiction. Now, renowned translators and longtime house authors Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky give us their peerless renderings of fifty-two Chekhov stories--a full deck These stories, which span the full arc of his career, reveal the extraordinary variety and unexpectedness of his work, from the farcically comic to the darkly complex, showing that there is no one type of "Chekhov story." They are populated by a remarkable range of characters who come from all parts of Russia, all walks of life, and who, taken together, have democratized the short story. Included here are a number of never-before-translated stories, including "Reading" and "An Educated Blockhead." Here is a collection that promises profound delight.

The Lady with the Dog, and Other Stories

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 652 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (321 download)

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Download or read book The Lady with the Dog, and Other Stories written by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov and published by . This book was released on 1917 with total page 652 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Anton Chekhov's Short Stories

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Publisher : W W Norton & Company Incorporated
ISBN 13 : 9780393090024
Total Pages : 369 pages
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Download or read book Anton Chekhov's Short Stories written by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov and published by W W Norton & Company Incorporated. This book was released on 1979 with total page 369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The thirty-four stories in this volume span Chekhov s creative career."

Nine Humorous Tales

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 74 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Nine Humorous Tales written by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov and published by . This book was released on 1918 with total page 74 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Forty Stories

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Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 0307778533
Total Pages : 385 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (77 download)

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Download or read book Forty Stories written by Anton Chekhov and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2011-03-09 with total page 385 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: If any writer can be said to have invented the modern short story, it is Anton Chekhov. It is not just that Chekhov democratized this art form; more than that, he changed the thrust of short fiction from relating to revealing. And what marvelous and unbearable things are revealed in these Forty Stories. The abashed happiness of a woman in the presence of the husband who abandoned her years before. The obsequious terror of the official who accidentally sneezes on a general. The poignant astonishment of an aging Don Juan overtaken by love. Spanning the entirety of Chekhov's career and including such masterpieces as "Surgery," "The Huntsman," "Anyuta," "Sleepyhead," "The Lady With the Pet Dog," and "The Bishop," this collection manages to be amusing, dazzling, and supremely moving—often within a single page.

The Complete Short Novels

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Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 030742829X
Total Pages : 578 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (74 download)

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Download or read book The Complete Short Novels written by Anton Chekhov and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2007-12-18 with total page 578 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: (Book Jacket Status: Jacketed) Aanton Chekhov, widely hailed as the supreme master of the short story, also wrote five works long enough to be called short novels–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. 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. 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 spying on an important official by serving as valet to his son gradually discovers 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. In My Life, a man renounces wealth and social position for a life of manual labor. The resulting conflict between the moral simplicity of his ideals and the complex realities of human nature culminates in a brief apocalyptic vision that is unique in Chekhov’s work.

Short Stories by Anton Chekhov

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ISBN 13 : 9780848825751
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (257 download)

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Celebrity Chekhov

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Publisher : Harper Collins
ISBN 13 : 0062020846
Total Pages : 226 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (62 download)

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Download or read book Celebrity Chekhov written by Ben Greenman and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2010-10-05 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New Yorker editor and McSweeney's contributor Ben Greenman reshapes Russian literature's most celebrated stories around America's most popular pop culture icons, probing the deep complexities of Anton Chekov (not to mention those of Cruise or Kardashian). Thought-provoking and funny, these wryly re-imagined tales will be sure-fire favorites for every kind of reader, whether your favorite escapes are celebrity memoirs like L.A. Candy and The Truth about Diamonds, re-conceived classics like Wicked, literary parodies like Pride and Prejudice and Zombies, or masterpieces of fiction from authors like Tolstoy, Pushkin and Chekhov himself.

The Lady with the Little Dog and Other Stories, 1896-1904

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Publisher : Penguin UK
ISBN 13 : 0141906855
Total Pages : 384 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (419 download)

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Download or read book The Lady with the Little Dog and Other Stories, 1896-1904 written by Anton Chekhov and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2002-08-29 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the final years of his life, Chekhov had reached the height of his powers as a dramatist, and also produced some of the stories that rank among his masterpieces. The poignant 'The Lady with the Little Dog' and 'About Love' examine the nature of love outside of marriage - its romantic idealism and the fear of disillusionment. And in stories such as 'Peasants', 'The House with the Mezzanine' and 'My Life' Chekhov paints a vivid picture of the conditions of the poor and of their powerlessness in the face of exploitation and hardship. With the works collected here, Chekhov moved away from the realism of his earlier tales - developing a broader range of characters and subject matter, while forging the spare minimalist style that would inspire such modern short-story writers as Hemingway and Faulkner.

Stories of Women

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Publisher : Pyr Books
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 324 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (321 download)

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Download or read book Stories of Women written by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov and published by Pyr Books. This book was released on 1994 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Upon their return to Russia, these women began to participate in protests, which led to a reactionary movement in the 1880s and the closing of university doors to women until 1897.

The Steppe and the Other Stories

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Publisher : Readhowyouwant
ISBN 13 : 9781425056568
Total Pages : 492 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (565 download)

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Download or read book The Steppe and the Other Stories written by Anton Chekhov and published by Readhowyouwant. This book was released on 2006-12-01 with total page 492 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'the Steppe and other Stories'', a collection is among the first of Chekhov's works to be published in a serious literary journal. The majority of tales in this collection focus on the issues faced by privileged class. The narration shows that the author never left his roots, being the son of an unsuccessful provincial grocer greatly influenced his writings. Interesting!