Complete Early Chekhov Volume 1: He and She and Other Stories, will be the first comprehensive guide to the EARLY works of Anton Chekhov (1880-1887), one of the world's greatest playwrights and short story writers. MOST OF THE STORIES ARE PUBLISHED IN ENGLISH FOR THE FIRST TIME.
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Interest in the life of Chekhov was renewed in 1998 with the publication of Donald Rayfield's excellent biography. Now Megapolis brings us 220 of Chekhov's previously untranslated short stories. The first volume covers the period from 1880 to 1882, the first three years of Chekhov's writing career when he was a student at the Medical Academy. In this period his stories were mostly published in humor magazines. Volume 2 contains stories published between 1883 and 1884, the period when he was transitioning to full-time writing. A third volume (to follow) will represent works included in his first collection of stories. These volumes finally make available the stories, once scattered in rare Russian periodicals, in English. They will allow us to see more of how Chekhov's writing evolved throughout his life. The only disappointment is the lack of any introductory material to aid the reader in understanding the stories in their original context. This is, however, a minor distraction in what should prove to be a gold mine of reading. Recommended for literary collections.
-Ronald Ray Ratliff, Emporia P.L., KS
Copyright 2000 Reed Business Information, Inc.
-Ronald Ray Ratliff, Emporia P.L., KS
Copyright 2000 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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"A gold-mine of reading..." -- Library Journal Dec.1999
"Ambitious...indisputable masterpieces, uniquely rewarding." -- Kirkus Review, Nov 1999
"Ambitious...indisputable masterpieces, uniquely rewarding." -- Kirkus Review, Nov 1999
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Great author, great translation, great reading!,
By Snejina Sonina (Toronto, ON, Canada) - See all my reviews
This review is from: He and She and Other Stories 1880-82 : The Complete Short Stories of Anton Chekhov (Vol 1) (Paperback)
This book is a great reading! These Chekhov's stories of the early period are full of humour: some of them are just funny but lots of them are psychologically deep. No surprise that most of these stories are widely recognised as masterpieces! Though written in the late XIX these stories are still of great importance for the contemporary reader because they deal with such eternal things as human soul and human character. And in such a funny manner! The translation is remarkable. Those who ever tried to translate literary prose from Russian into English know how difficult this task is. You can really enjoy Sekirin's publication : he succeeded in the translation of the most difficult passages, those in which Chekhov describes the specific atmosphere of Russian reality and even those in which Chekhov play words. Read this book and recommend it to everybody! It is a real treasure of humour and a great exhibition of human characters!
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