{"product_id":"stories-of-men-anton-pavlovich-chekhov-9781573921350","title":"Stories of Men","description":"Many of Chekhov's short stories, translated into English during the early years of the 20th century, do not retain the slavic flavor of the originals. Ross' translations reverse this trend. The stories focus on the development and unique existence of the male the trials and tribulations of adolescence, maturity, and old age. Chekhov masterfully takes complicated emotional experiences and presents them with his characteristic intensity and clarity, allowing readers to vicariously share the experience. His prose is truly poetic.Stories of Men begins with \"Volodya,\" a boy on the brink of independence, caught in an undercurrent of social displacement, who makes an irreversible mistake. Chekhov's stories of youth including \"A Confession,\" \"The Proud Man,\" and \"The Guardian,\" a tale of artistic game-playing are full of comedy, inordinate vanity, and self-realization. Many of these very early stories were published in comic magazines under pseudonyms. Later his stories mature as do the characters in \"Fear,\" \"Promotion Preliminary Examination,\" and \"The Wager,\" a political comparison of capital punishment and life imprisonment. Though only in his forties, Chekhov was ready to contemplate death in \"A Tedious Tale.\"Ross has made these works more accurate and accessible to the contemporary reader, while maintaining Chekhov's original intent of illustrating how time and circumstances can change men. With thirteen stories only now being presented to the English-speaking world, Stories of Men will excite all who love this classic writer's work.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Anton Pavlovich Chekhov\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1573921351\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781573921350\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Prometheus Books\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 04\/01\/1997\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 372\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.94lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.45h x 5.34w x 0.83d","brand":"Anton Pavlovich Chekhov","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43939718529279,"sku":"9781573921350","price":19.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/products\/img_dbb18e97-62bf-4ff1-a4fd-62c157d2a32e.jpg?v=1681443100","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/stories-of-men-anton-pavlovich-chekhov-9781573921350","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}