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Author | : Anton Chekhov |
Publisher | : Penguin UK |
Total Pages | : 368 |
Release | : 2002-05-30 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 0141906871 |
Download Ward No. 6 and Other Stories, 1892-1895 Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
These stories from the middle period of Chekhov's career show him exploring complex, ambiguous and often extreme emotions. Influenced by his own experiences as a doctor, 'Ward No. 6', set in a mental hospital, is a savage indictment of the medical profession. 'The Black Monk', portraying an academic who has strange hallucinations, explores ideas of genius and insanity; in 'Murder', religious fervour leads to violence; while in 'The Student', Chekhov's favourite story, a young man recounts a tale from the gospels and undergoes a spiritual epiphany. In all the stories collected here, Chekhov's characters face madness, alienation and frustration before they experience brief, ephemeral moments of insight, often earned at great cost, where they confront the reality of their existence.
Author | : Anton Pavlovich Chekhov |
Publisher | : Readhowyouwant |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2006-12 |
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ISBN | : 9781425055691 |
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This book contains a great selection of Chekhov's short stories.
Author | : Anton Chekhov |
Publisher | : Penguin UK |
Total Pages | : 384 |
Release | : 2002-08-29 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 0141906855 |
Download The Lady with the Little Dog and Other Stories, 1896-1904 Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
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.
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Download Ward No. 6 [in, Ward No. 6 and Other Stories, 1892-1895: Translated with Notes by Ronald Wilks with an Introduction by J. Douglas Clayton] (Penguin Classics). Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Author | : Anton Chekhov |
Publisher | : Readhowyouwant |
Total Pages | : 444 |
Release | : 2006-12-01 |
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ISBN | : 9781425056575 |
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This book contains a great selection of Chekhov's short stories. The titled tale ''Ward No.6'' is also a stunning success. Chekhov describes pitiable characters, and uses them to formulate subtle yet powerful satires of the less noble aspects of human nature such as egocentrism and sophistry. He delves into the depth of his characters and explains the psychology in a deeply-stirring manner.
Author | : Anton Pavlovich Chekhov |
Publisher | : Knopf |
Total Pages | : 529 |
Release | : 2020 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 0525520813 |
Download Fifty-two Stories, 1883-1898 Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
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.
Author | : Anton Chekhov |
Publisher | : Readhowyouwant |
Total Pages | : 492 |
Release | : 2006-12-01 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9781425056568 |
Download The Steppe and the Other Stories Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
'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!
Author | : Kenko |
Publisher | : Penguin UK |
Total Pages | : 224 |
Release | : 2013-12-05 |
Genre | : Literary Collections |
ISBN | : 0141957875 |
Download Essays in Idleness Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
These two works on life's fleeting pleasures are by Buddhist monks from medieval Japan, but each shows a different world-view. In the short memoir Hôjôki, Chômei recounts his decision to withdraw from worldly affairs and live as a hermit in a tiny hut in the mountains, contemplating the impermanence of human existence. Kenko, however, displays a fascination with more earthy matters in his collection of anecdotes, advice and observations. From ribald stories of drunken monks to aching nostalgia for the fading traditions of the Japanese court, Essays in Idleness is a constantly surprising work that ranges across the spectrum of human experience. Meredith McKinney's excellent new translation also includes notes and an introduction exploring the spiritual and historical background of the works. Chômei was born into a family of Shinto priests in around 1155, at at time when the stable world of the court was rapidly breaking up. He became an important though minor poet of his day, and at the age of fifty, withdrew from the world to become a tonsured monk. He died in around 1216. Kenkô was born around 1283 in Kyoto. He probably became a monk in his late twenties, and was also noted as a calligrapher. Today he is remembered for his wise and witty aphorisms, 'Essays in Idleness'. Meredith McKinney, who has also translated Sei Shonagon's The Pillow Book for Penguin Classics, is a translator of both contemporary and classical Japanese literature. She lived in Japan for twenty years and is currently a visitng fellow at the Australian National University in Canberra. '[Essays in Idleness is] a most delightful book, and one that has served as a model of Japanese style and taste since the 17th century. These cameo-like vignettes reflect the importance of the little, fleeting futile things, and each essay is Kenko himself' Asian Student
Author | : Anton Chekhov |
Publisher | : Penguin |
Total Pages | : 641 |
Release | : 1977-08-25 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 0140150358 |
Download The Portable Chekhov Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Anton Chekhov remarked toward the close of his life that people would stop reading him a year after his death. But his literary stature and popularity have grown steadily with the years, and he is accounted the single most important influence on the development of the modern short story. Edited and with an introduction by Avrahm Yarmolinsky, The Portable Chekhov presents twenty-eight of Chekhov’s best stories, chosen as particularly representative of his many-sided portrayal of the human comedy—including “The Kiss,” “The Darling,” and “In the Ravine”—as well as two complete plays; The Boor, an example of Chekhov’s earlier dramatic work, and The Cherry Orchard, his last and finest play. In addition, this volume includes a selection of letters, candidly revealing of Chekhov’s impassioned convictions on life and art, his high aspirations, his marriage, and his omnipresent compassion.
Author | : Anton Chekhov |
Publisher | : Vintage |
Total Pages | : 578 |
Release | : 2007-12-18 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 030742829X |
Download The Complete Short Novels Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
(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.