โ Amy Cross
๐ Fiction
๐
2019
๐ English
โ 127 KB
๐ 1 views
โฆ LIBER โฆ
Little apples and other early stories
โ Scribed by Anton Chekhov
- Publisher
- Seven Stories Press
- Year
- 2016
- Tongue
- en-US
- Weight
- 98 KB
- Edition
- A Seven Stories Press First edition
- Category
- Fiction
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
โฆ Synopsis
In the follow-up to his National Translation Award-winning collection The Undiscovered Chekhov , translator and scholar Peter Constantine brings us more little-known work from the legendary author's early days as a magazine writer, pseudonymously turning out pieces for Russia's small middle class. These stories are fresh, yet mature, snapshots of the style with which Chekhov would come to be associated, both uproariously tragic and darkly comic, and lit from within by a deep fellow feeling for all of humanity. As his readers have come expect, Constantine has translated this work with a masterly command of both languages' subtleties, capturing the shadings and intricacies of Chekhov's writing that flash and recede like sunlight on an orchard, offering Chekhov's tough and amused perspectives on daily phenomena like love, aging, class, and work. With moments that seem to presage the most contemporary writing, Chekhov's Little Apples reveals one of the world's greatest...
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