Author: Joseph Conrad
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781851960590
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 304

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Author: Joseph Conrad
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Category :
Languages : en
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Author: Anton Chekhov
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN: 030742829X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 578

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(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.

Author: Anton Pavlovich Chekhov
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 340

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Author: Anton Pavlovich Chekhov
Publisher: Knopf
ISBN: 0525520813
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 529

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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: Joseph Conrad
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Adventure stories, English
Languages : en
Pages : 344

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Author: Christian Wenk
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Abjection in literature
Languages : en
Pages : 304

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Author: Joseph Conrad
Publisher: Ecco Press
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 344

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"The Complete Short Fiction of Joseph Conrad : The Stories, Volume II assembles the great writer's final thirteen short stories, with a chronology of Conrad's life, a bibliography, and the author's own notes on the text. The stories in this volume, originally published between 1906 and 1928 ... constitute an important but too often overlooked element of Conrad's considerable body of work."--Front jacket flap.

Author: Arthur James Wells
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Bibliography, National
Languages : en
Pages : 1554

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Author: Joseph Conrad
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781851960583
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 335

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