TY  - BOOK
AU  - Chekhov,Anton Pavlovich
AU  - Pevear,Richard
AU  - Volokhonsky,Larissa
AU  - Chekhov,Anton Pavlovich
AU  - Chekhov,Anton Pavlovich
AU  - Chekhov,Anton Pavlovich
AU  - Chekhov,Anton Pavlovich
AU  - Chekhov,Anton Pavlovich
TI  - The complete short novels
T2  - Everyman's Library
SN  - 9781857152777
AV  - PG3456.A13 P48 2004
U1  - 891.733 CHE 2004 22
PY  - 2004///
CY  - New York
PB  - Alfred A. Knopf
KW  - Chekhov, Anton Pavlovich,
KW  - Short stories, Russian
KW  - Political fiction
KW  - lcgft
KW  - Domestic fiction
KW  - Fiction
KW  - Novellas
KW  - Novels
N1  - "A new translation by Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky"--Jacket; Includes bibliographical references (pages xxiv-xxv); The steppe --; The duel --; The story of an unknown man --; Three years --; My life
N2  - "The Steppe 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 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."--Page 2 of cover
ER  -