Peasants and other stories

Author(s)

• Chekhov, Anton Pavlovich
• Wilson, Edmund
• Garnett, Constance

Bibliographic Information

Peasants and other stories

Anton Chekhov ; selected and with an introduction by Edmund Wilson ; translated from the Russian by Constance Garnett

（New York review books classics）

New York Review of Books, 1999

• : pbk.

Note

Originally published: Garden City, N.Y. : Doubleday Anchor Books, 1956

Description and Table of Contents

Description

The ever maturing art and ever more ambitious imaginative reach of Anton Chekhov, one of the world's greatest masters of the short story, led him in his last years to an increasingly profound exploration of the troubled depths of Russian society and life. This powerful and revealing selection from Chekhov's final works, made by the legendary American critic Edmund Wilson, offers stories of novelistic richness and complexity, published in the only formatp edition to present them in chronological order. Table of ContentsA Woman's KingdomThree YearsThe MurderMy LifePeasantsThe New VillaIn the RavineThe BishopBetrothed

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Details

• NCID: BA89763560
• ISBN:
  • 0940322145
• LCCN: 99014551
• Country Code: us
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Original Language Code: rus
• Place of Publication: New York
• Pages/Volumes: xi, 479 p.
• Size: 21 cm
• Classification:
  • LCC : PG3456.A13
  • DC21 : 891.73/3
• Subject Headings:
  • LCSH : Chekhov, Anton Pavlovich, 1860-1904 -- Translations into English
  • LCSH : Russia -- Social life and customs -- Fiction
• Parent Bibliography ID:
  • BA49931819