About Love and Other Stories

Zusatztext Seventeen peerless examples of how much life you can put into a few pages of fiction if you have Chekhovs economical mind, his eyes and ears, his feel for comedy and his sense of humanity. Chekhov is better known for his plays. But these are small masterpieces of their own, in a revelatory new translation. Informationen zum Autor Rosamund Bartlett is currently working on a major biography of Chekhov for publication by Simon and Schuster in 2004. She is also editing and jointly translating Anton Chekhov: A Life in Letters for Penguin (forthcoming, 2004), and writing The Cambridge Companion to Russian Music and Opera in Russia: A Cultural History (Yale UP, 2005/6). Her translation of 'In the Cart' from About Love and Other Stories has been chosen for inclusion in the Penguin Book of Russian Short Stories (forthcoming, 2005). Klappentext The importance of Chekhov's stories is now recognized by readers as well as by fellow authors. Their themes - alienation, the absurdity and tragedy of human existence - have as much relevance today as when they were written, and this superb new translation captures their modernist spirit. Among the fourteen stories included are 'The Lady with the Little Dog', 'Gusev', and 'Rothschild's Violin'. Zusammenfassung The importance of Chekhov's stories is now recognized by readers as well as by fellow authors. Their themes - alienation, the absurdity and tragedy of human existence - have as much relevance today as when they were written, and this superb new translation captures their modernist spirit. Among the fourteen stories included are 'The Lady with the Little Dog', 'Gusev', and 'Rothschild's Violin'. Inhaltsverzeichnis The Huntsman On the Road The Letter Fortune Gusev Fish Love The Black Monk Rothschild's Violin The Student The House with the Mezzanine In the Cart The Man in a Case Gooseberries About Love The Lady with the Little Dog At Christmas Time The Bishop ...

Product details

• Authors: Anton Chekhov, Anton Pavlovich Chekhov, Chekhov Anton, Anton Tschechow, Anton Pawlowitsch Tschechow
• Assisted by: Rosamund Bartlett (Translation), Rosamund (Lecturer in Russian Bartlett (Translation), Bartlett Rosamund (Translation)
• Publisher: Oxford University Press Trade
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 14.08.2008
• EAN: 9780199536689
• ISBN: 978-0-19-953668-9
• Dimensions: 129 mm x 198 mm x 13 mm
• Series: World's classics; Oxford World's Classics; World's classics; Oxford World's Classics; World's classics
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; FICTION / Short Stories (single author), FICTION / Classics, Classic fiction (pre c 1945), Short Stories, Fiction in translation, Classic fiction: general and literary