The kiss and other stories

Author(s)

• Chekhov, Anton Pavlovich
• Wilks, Ronald

Bibliographic Information

The kiss and other stories

Chekhov ; translated with an introduction by Ronald Wilks

（Penguin classics）

Penguin, 1982

• : pbk

Contents of Works

• The kiss
• Peasants
• The bishop
• The Russian master
• Man in a case
• Gooseberries
• Concerning love
• A case history
• In the gully
• Anna round the neck

Description and Table of Contents

Description

A selection of ten stories written when Chekhov had reached his maturity as a short storywriter, between 1887 and 1902. They show him as a master of compression and a probing analyst, unmasking the mediocrity, lack of ideals, and spiritual and physical inertia of his generation. In these grim pictures of peasant life, and telling portraits of men and women enmeshed in trivialities, in the finely observed, suffocating atmosphere of provincial towns with their pompous officials, frustrated, self-seeking wives, spineless husbands, Chekhov does not expound any system of morality, but leaves the reader to draw what conclusion he will.

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Details

• NCID: BA05082061
• ISBN:
  • 0140443363
• LCCN: 82229823
• Country Code: uk
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Original Language Code: rus
• Place of Publication: Harmondsworth, Middlesex, England ; New York, N.Y.
• Pages/Volumes: 216 p.
• Size: 19 cm
• Classification:
  • LCC : PG3456.A15
  • DC19 : 891.73/3
• Parent Bibliography ID:
  • BA00305646