Please visit www.ArcManor.com for more books by this and other great authors.
| ||||||||||||
Book Description
Special Offers and Product Promotions
- This item is eligible for our 4-for-3 promotion. Eligible products include select Books and Home & Garden items. Buy any 4 eligible items and get the lowest-priced item free. Here's how (restrictions apply)
Frequently Bought Together
Editorial Reviews
Review
"I wanted them all, even those I'd already read."
—Ron Rosenbaum, The New York Observer
"Small wonders."
—Time Out London
"[F]irst-rate…astutely selected and attractively packaged…indisputably great works."
—Adam Begley, The New York Observer
"I’ve always been haunted by Bartleby, the proto-slacker. But it’s the handsomely minimalist cover of the Melville House edition that gets me here, one of many in the small publisher’s fine 'Art of the Novella' series."
—The New Yorker
"The Art of the Novella series is sort of an anti-Kindle. What these singular, distinctive titles celebrate is book-ness. They're slim enough to be portable but showy enough to be conspicuously consumed—tiny little objects that demand to be loved for the commodities they are."
—KQED (NPR San Francisco)
"Some like it short, and if you're one of them, Melville House, an independent publisher based in Brooklyn, has a line of books for you... elegant-looking paperback editions ...a good read in a small package."
—The Wall Street Journal --This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition.
—Ron Rosenbaum, The New York Observer
"Small wonders."
—Time Out London
"[F]irst-rate…astutely selected and attractively packaged…indisputably great works."
—Adam Begley, The New York Observer
"I’ve always been haunted by Bartleby, the proto-slacker. But it’s the handsomely minimalist cover of the Melville House edition that gets me here, one of many in the small publisher’s fine 'Art of the Novella' series."
—The New Yorker
"The Art of the Novella series is sort of an anti-Kindle. What these singular, distinctive titles celebrate is book-ness. They're slim enough to be portable but showy enough to be conspicuously consumed—tiny little objects that demand to be loved for the commodities they are."
—KQED (NPR San Francisco)
"Some like it short, and if you're one of them, Melville House, an independent publisher based in Brooklyn, has a line of books for you... elegant-looking paperback editions ...a good read in a small package."
—The Wall Street Journal --This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition.
About the Author
Anton Chekhov was born into a large family in 1860 in Taganrog, Russia, the grandson of serfs. He supported the family by writing stories for magazines while simultaneously putting himself through medical school – where, tragically, he contracted tuberculosis. He published his first collection, Motley Stories, in 1886, and his second, In the Twilight, a year later. He continued to practice medicine, often pro bono, leading friends to complain about the line of peasants constantly at his door. He also wrote plays, but when critics attacked The Seagull, he vowed to give up playwriting. He did not, and while staging The Cherry Orchard Chekhov collapsed, dying shortly thereafter, in 1904.
--This text refers to an alternate
Paperback
edition.
Product Details
Would you like to update product info or give feedback on images?
|
More About the Authors
Discover books, learn about writers, read author blogs, and more.
Customer Reviews
|
Share your thoughts with other customers:
|
||||||||||||||||||||||
|
Most Helpful Customer Reviews
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
a wonderful short novel,
This review is from: My Life (The Art of the Novella series) (Paperback)
Anton Chekhov, justly celebrated for his plays and short stories, also wrote this poignant prose narrative, subtitled The Story of a Provincial. A non-conformist young aristocrat who wants to live through manual labor, inadvertently shocks, puzzles, angers, amuses, or fascinates his fellow townspeople. His authoritarian father is furious, his shy sister is (initially) dismayed, a young woman who likes him grows aloof, another young woman becomes infatuated. Written in 1896, this short novel is a marvelous depiction of the narrowmindedness, cruelty, emptyheadedness, and misery - physical or emotional - that stunted the lives of much of Russia's population of the time. Professionals, merchants, artisans, and peasants (some of them quite sympathetic) are delineated succinctly and vividly, and as the deceptively simple story unfolds, it generates a powerful atmosphere of haunting, compassionate sadness. The answer to a question the narrative implicitly raises - Must life be like this, or can it be better? - is wisely left up to the reader.
Share your thoughts with other customers: Create your own review
|
|
Inside This Book
(learn more)
Browse and search another edition of this book.
Browse and search another edition of this book.
Citations (learn more)
100
books
cite this book:
See all 100 books citing this book
- Chekhov: The Cherry Orchard (Plays in Production) by James N. Loehlin on 7 pages
- A Sourcebook on Naturalist Theatre by Christopher Innes on 6 pages
- Stanislavsky in Focus (Russian Theatre Archive, Volume 17) by Sharon Marie Carnicke in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
- Modern Drama in Theory and Practice: Volume 1, Realism and Naturalism (Modern Drama in Theory & Practice) by J. L. Styan on page 78, page 114, and Back Matter
- Reading Chekhov: A Critical Journey by Janet Malcolm on page 73, page 95, and Back Matter
See all 100 books citing this book
Suggested Tags from Similar Products(What's this?)Be the first one to add a relevant tag (keyword that's strongly related to this product).
|
Sell a Digital Version of This Book in the Kindle Store
If you are a publisher or author and hold the digital rights to a book, you can sell a digital version of it in our Kindle Store.
Learn more
Customer Discussions
|
This product's forum
Active discussions in related forums
Search Customer Discussions
|
Related forums
|
Listmania!
|
|
