ANTON CHEKHOV, Peasants and Other Stories, Published by Franklin Library, $ + $ shipping + $ shipping + $ shipping. Picture Information. Image not available. Mouse over to Zoom-Click to enlarge. Move over photo to zoom. X. Have one to sell? Sell Language: English. The contemporary short-story is unimaginable without Anton Chekhov. He stripped the story of many of the features that had seemed essential to nineteenth-century readers: plot, narrative tension, and denouement. Terms such as "slices of life" and "sketches" are used to highlight the fact that often very little happens in Chekhov's short stories. 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 5/5(1).
During the last ten years of his life, Anton Chekhov penned his great plays, spent time treating the sick, and wrote a small number of stories that are considered his masterpieces. The eleven stories collected here-_The Lady with the Little Dog,_ _The House with the Mezzanine,_ _My Life,_ _Peasants,_ _A Visit to Friends,_ _Ionych,_ _About Love,_ _In the Ravine,_ _The Bishop,_ _The Bride,_ and. Ward No. 6 And Other Stories by Anton Chekhov • Dan Schneider I'd long heard that Russian writer Anton Chekhov had written short stories, but like most people it was on the strength of his plays, those intense little mood pieces, that I knew him best. The contemporary short-story is unimaginable without Anton Chekhov. He stripped the story of many of the features that had seemed essential to nineteenth-century readers: plot, narrative tension, and denouement. Terms such as "slices of life" and "sketches" are used to highlight the fact that often very little happens in Chekhov's short stories.
Some of the most pungent of Chekhov's stories are included here, including "The Murder", "In the Ravine", and "The Bishop". The version of "Peasants" is not the Constance Garnett translation but one by Edmund Wilson; I prefer the Garnett. 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. The stories in this volume have been selected to represent some of Chekhov’s greatest work, and.
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