Peasants and Other Stories by Chekhov, Anton

Peasants and Other Stories (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780940322141)

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Peasants and Other Stories by Chekhov, Anton

Peasants and Other Stories

$22.95
Peasants and Other Stories by Chekhov, Anton

Peasants and Other Stories

$22.95
Format: Paperback
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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 Contents
A Woman's Kingdom
Three Years
The Murder
My Life
Peasants
The New Villa
In the Ravine
The Bishop
Betrothed

Author: Anton Chekhov
ISBN-10: 0940322145
ISBN-13: 9780940322141
Publisher: New York Review of Books
Language: English
Published: 09/30/1999
Pages: 496
Format: Paperback
Weight: 1.09lbs
Size: 7.95h x 5.85w x 0.92d
By Anton Chekhov
By Anton Chekhov
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Anton Chekhov (1860-1904) the son of a grocer and serf, worked as a physician and ran an open clinic for the poor, while also writing the plays and short stories that have established him as one of the greatest figures in Russian literature.

Edmund Wilson (1895-1972) is widely regarded as the preeminent American man of letters of the twentieth century. Over his long career, he wrote for Vanity Fair, helped edit The New Republic, served as chief book critic for The New Yorker, and was a frequent contributor to The New York Review of Books. Wilson was the author of more than twenty books, includingAxel's Castle, Patriotic Gore, and a work of fiction, Memoirs of Hecate County.

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