Chekhov, the early stories :
by Chekov, Anton Pavlovicfrey50
Published by : Macmillian Publishing, Inc. (New York) , 1982 Physical details: 203 p. ISSN:002524620| Item type | Current location | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode |
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| 800 - 899 | Book Cart | 891.733 Che (Browse shelf) | Available | 53038 |
Includes Bibliography
Introduction -- 1883: Rapture ; The death of a civil servant ; An incident at law ; Fat and thin ; The daughter of Albion -- 1884: Oysters ; A dreadful night ; Minds in ferment ; The complaints book ; The chameleon -- 1885: The huntsman ; The malefactor ; A man of ideas ; Sergeant Prishibeyev ; The misfortune -- 1886: Romance with double-bass ; The witch ; Grisha ; Kids ; Revenge ; Easter night ; The little joke ; The objet d'art ; The chorus-girl ; Dreams ; The orator ; Vanka -- 1887 Verochka ; A drama ; Typhus ; Notes from the journal of a quick-tempered man ; The reed-pipe ; The kiss -- 1888: No comment ; Let me sleep -- Notes -- Select bibliography.
This superb collection of thirty-five short stories offers a larger and more representative sampling of Chekhov's early work than ever before. Although nine-tenths of all his published fiction was written between the ages of twenty and twenty-eight, there has never been an English-language edition devoted solely to them. Many of these short stories display the purely comic side of Chekhov's writing, and reveal a rare glimpse of Chekhov's warm, exuberant absurdist homour as it ripens into a darker, more melancholy irony.