Selected Stories of Anton Chekhov
$38.67
- Paperback
496 pages
- Release Date
5 January 2001
Summary
Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky, the highly acclaimed translators of War and Peace, Doctor Zhivago, and Anna Karenina (which was an Oprah Book Club pick and million-copy bestseller), bring their unmatched talents to The Selected Stories of Anton Chekhov, a collection of thirty of Chekhov’s best tales from the major periods of his creative life.
Considered the greatest short story writer, Anton Chekhov changed the genre itself with his spare, …
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780553381009 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 0553381008 |
| Author: | Anton Chekhov, Richard Pevear, Larissa Volokhonsky |
| Publisher: | Random House USA Inc |
| Imprint: | Modern Library Inc |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 496 |
| Release Date: | 5 January 2001 |
| Weight: | 357g |
| Dimensions: | 203mm x 127mm x 25mm |
| Series: | Modern Library Classics |
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“Theirs is an adagio reading, distinctive and fresh, that returns to us a work we thought we knew, subtly altered and so made new again.”—The Washington Post Book World, on Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky’s translation of The Brothers Karamazov
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Anton Chekhov
Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky have won the PEN Book-of-the-Month Club Translation Prize twice, for their version of Dostoevsky’s The Brothers Karamazov and for Tolstoy’s Anna Karenina. They are married and live in France.
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