The Complete Short Novels

Name: The Complete Short Novels
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Anton Chekov, Richard Pevear, Richard Pevear , Larissa Volokhonsky

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Everyman Hardcovers
15 July 2004

Literature, Poetry & Criticism; Classic fiction (pre c 1945)

Series: Everyman's Library CLASSICS

Anton Chekhov's short novels are here brought together in one volume for the first time, in a masterly new translation by the award-winning translators Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky. In these five short novels, Chekhov's masterful storytelling and his profound understanding of human nature are brilliantly evinced.

Chekhov, widely hailed as the supreme master of the short story, also wrote five works long enough to be called short novels. The Steppe-the most lyrical of the five-is an account of a nine-year-old boy's frightening journey by wagon train across the steppe of southern Russia to enroll in a distant school. The Duel sets two decadent figures-a fanatical rationalist and a man of literary sensibility-on a collision course that ends in a series of surprising reversals. In The Story of an Unknown Man, a political radical plans to spy on an important official by serving as valet to his son, however, as he gradually becomes involved as a silent witness in the intimate life of his young employer, he finds that his own terminal illness has changed his long-held priorities in startling ways. Three Years recounts a complex series of ironies in the personal life of a rich but passive Moscow merchant, engaging time as a narrative element in a way unusual in Chekhov's fiction. In My Life, a man renounces wealth and social position for a life of manual labour, and the resulting conflict between the moral simplicity of his ideals and the complex realities of human nature culminates in an apocalyptic vision that is unique in Chekhov's work.

By: Anton Chekov
Introduction by: Richard Pevear
Translated by: Richard Pevear, Larissa Volokhonsky
Imprint: Everyman Hardcovers
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 210mm, Width: 133mm, Spine: 33mm
Weight: 637g
ISBN: 9781857152777
ISBN 10: 1857152778
Series: Everyman's Library CLASSICS
Pages: 560
Publication Date: 15 July 2004
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky are known for their highly-acclaimed translations of Dostoevsky (Demons, The Brothers Karamazov, Crime and Punishment, The Idiot and The Adolescent have already been published by Everyman). Their translation of The Brothers Karamazov won America's prestigious PEN/Book-of-the-Month Club Prize.

Reviews for The Complete Short Novels

"Praise for previous translations by Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky: ""The reinventors of the classic Russian novel for our times."" -PEN/BoMC Translation Prize Citation ""Their translations have become the standard English-language texts."" -Newsday The Brothers Karamazov: ""One finally gets the musical whole of Dostoevksy's original."" -The New York Times Book Review Anna Karenina: ""The most scrupulous, illuminating and compelling version yet."" -The Oregonian"