A practising doctor, Chekhov was an acute observer of Russian society's moral, as well as physical sickness. Joining The Russian Master , Ward Number Six , and A Woman's Kingdom in the World's Classics series, this collection, including `The Party', `After the Theatre', and `A Case History', again poses his recurrent literary quandary of whether to moralize, hoping to reform these ailments, or simply to entertain. The solution is to be found in the stories themselves, which, like his plays, offer no easy answers, but pinpoint the anguish, tedium, or downright evil of his characters with an irony that makes them both poignant and truthful. This book is intended for general; students following courses on the short story, Russian literature.
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"[An] excellent selection of important stories."--N. Schaumburger, Manhattanville College
--This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition.
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AFTER the eight-course banquet and the interminable conversation Olga Mikhaylovna went out into the garden. Read the first page Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Pyatnitsky Road, Aunt Dasha, Father Andrew, Father Sisoy, Von Stenberg, Bishop Peter, Count Alexis, Miss Christine, Uncle Nicholas, Kostya Kochevoy, Monastery of the Almighty, One Sunday New!
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AFTER the eight-course banquet and the interminable conversation Olga Mikhaylovna went out into the garden. Read the first page Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Pyatnitsky Road, Aunt Dasha, Father Andrew, Father Sisoy, Von Stenberg, Bishop Peter, Count Alexis, Miss Christine, Uncle Nicholas, Kostya Kochevoy, Monastery of the Almighty, One Sunday New!
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- Eugene Onegin (Everyman's Library Pocket Poet) by Aleksandr Pushkin in Front Matter, Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Eugene Onegin (Wordsworth Classics of World Literature) by A.S. Pushkin in Front Matter, Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Eugene Onegin: A Novel in Verse (Oxford World's Classics) by Alexander Pushkin in Front Matter, Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Three Years (Hesperus Classics) by Anton Chekhov in Front Matter (1), and Front Matter (2)
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- Reference Guide to Russian Literature by Neil Cornwell on page 213
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