Description
About the Author
Anton Chekhov (1860-1904) was born in Taganrog, Russia, the son of a grocer. While training as a physician he supported his family with his freelance writing, composing hundreds of short comic pieces under a pen name for local magazines. He went on to write major works of drama, including The Seagull, Uncle Vanya and The Cherry Orchard, but continued to write prize-winning short stories up until his death from tuberculosis at the age of 44.
Reviews
"This beautifully produced selection of the stories from Pushkin Press (in a new translation by Nicolas Pasternak Slater) is an ideal way to discover Chekhov." -The Times (UK)
"Mysterious and mesmerizing, these stories stay enshrined in the memory." -The Daily Mail
"Near-perfect fiction, newly translated." -Evening Standard
"The uncontestable father of the modern short story . . . his stories are some of the best that have ever been written." -The Guardian
"The language is subtle and lovely, full of a regretful tenderness." -Sunday Express
"Chekhov's genius lies in the way he manages to convey with such apparent effortlessness a profound sense of the mystery of beauty, and of the sadness of those who observe and think . . . a masterpiece of minimalism" -Phillip Pullman
"The greatest short story writer who has ever lived" -Raymond Carver
"In Chekhov literature seems to break its wand like Prospero, renouncing the magic of artifice, ceremony and idealization, and facing us, for the first time, with a reflection of ourselves in our unadorned ordinariness as well as our unfathomable strangeness." -James Ladsun
Book Information
ISBN 9781805330301
Author Anton Chekhov
Format Paperback
Page Count 224
Imprint Pushkin Press Classics
Publisher Pushkin Press