The Lady with the Dog and Other Stories (riverrun editions)
a beautiful new edition of chekhov's short fiction, translated by constance garnett
$24.81
- Paperback
480 pages
- Release Date
27 August 2018
Summary
Love, Loss, and Provincial Life: Selected Stories of Chekhov
A man and woman fall in love in a seaside town. The only trouble is, they’re both married to other people.
A schoolmaster is scandalized by his sweetheart riding a bicycle.
A woman falls in love with a series of men, each of whom leave her in different ways.
Chekhov’s stories capture Russian provincial life in the late nineteenth century while Garnett’s translations make t…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781786489180 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 178648918X |
| Series: | riverrun editions |
| Author: | Anton Chekhov, Constance Garnett |
| Publisher: | Quercus Publishing |
| Imprint: | riverrun |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 480 |
| Release Date: | 27 August 2018 |
| Weight: | 332g |
| Dimensions: | 201mm x 131mm x 29mm |
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About The Author
Anton Chekhov
Anton Chekhov was a Russian playwright and short story writer who is considered to be among the greatest writers of short fiction in history. He trained as a doctor and practiced medicine throughout most of his literary career.
Constance Garnett was an English translator of nineteenth-century Russian literature and one of the first English translators of Tolstoy, Dostoevsky and Chekhov.
Janet Malcolm is a staff writer at The New Yorker and the author of The Journalist and the Murder and In the Freud Archives, among many others.
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